Kelvin called the meeting to order. The first person to address the group was Susan Hamir, the network design consultant from Costly & Firehouse, LLC. She reviewed the critical points from the design report, going over its options and outlining the trade-offs in the design choices. When she finished, she sat down and Kelvin addressed the group again: "We need to break the logjam on this design issue. We have all the right people in this room to make the right choice for the company. Now here are the questions I want us to consider over the next three hours." Kelvin pressed the key on his PC to show a slide with a list of discussion questions on the projector screen.

a. What questions do you think Kelvin should have included on his slide to start the discussion?
b. If the questions were broken down into two categories, they would be cost versus maintaining high security while keeping flexibility. Which is more important for SLS?

Your task this week is to write a very simple spam classifier in python. it will classify messages as either spam (unwanted) or ham (wanted). the program will have a set of spam_words, words that are known to appear in spam messages. that set is included in the template file spam. pypreview the document. you will also define a spam threshold which reflects the allowed percentage of spam words in the message. you'll compute a 'spam indicator', which is the ratio of spam words to the total number of unique words in the message. if the spam indicator exceeds the spam threshold, the message is classified as spam. otherwise it is classified as ham. we'll assume that the spam threshold is a constant and has a value of 0.10. your program will prompt the user for a message and then will print the corresponding spam indicator with two decimal digits and the corresponding classification (spam or ham). the program will be case insensitive. the spam words are detected whether they are in lower case or upper case or mixed case. each word, spam or not, is counted once (even if it appears multiple times in the message.) the program will remove punctuation from the message before identifying the words and computing the spam indicator. for example '! ' must be identified as the spam word 'now'.

3. bob is arguing that if you use output feedback (ofb) mode twice in a row to encrypt a long message, m, using the same key each time, it will be more secure. explain why bob is wrong, no matter what encryption algorithm he is using for block encryption (15 points).

The “rule of 72” is used to approximate the time required for prices to double due to inflation. if the inflation rate is r%, then the rule of 72 estimates that prices will double in 72/r years. for instance, at an inflation rate of 6%, prices double in about 72/6 or 12 years. write a program to test the accuracy of this rule. for each interest rate from 1% to 20%, the program should display the rounded value of 72/r and the actual number of years required for prices to double at an r% inflation rate. (assume prices increase at the end of each year.)