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UWA week 18 (1st semester, week 9) ↓

project Encrypt range (all 8)

1:37pm Fri 3rd May, Arran S.

Hi,

Can you clarify, what part of the spec or code are you referring to, when you say "The project only mentions that the plain text must be between this range"? I can't spot anything in the spec which imposes such a requirement.

Amongst other things, the spec says (in section 3.1.1):

characters in plain_text that fall within the range range_low to range_high are encrypted, but everything outside that range is not -- it is simply copied directly into ciphertext.

If there were a requirement that the plaintext fall within the range, it wouldn't make any sense to talk about "everything outside that range".

Cheers

Arran

ANONYMOUS wrote:

Hi,

Are we able to assume that the given range does not apply to the output of an encrypt function call or do we need to fit the output of the function to match this range?

For example, if encrypting from 'A' to 'Z', can the cipher text go outside these bounds and contain punctuation? The project only mentions that the plain text must be between this range.

Thank you

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