Concurrent encryption

What is?:

An project designed to better understand the use of semaphores and mutexs through the use of a basic encryption program that does the following as optimally as concurrency allows

1. reads in a file
2. counts each occurance of each letter
3. encrypts each character
4. counts each occurance of each encrypted letter
5. writes the encrypted character to a file

Design Goals:

• Better understand the uses and utilities of semaphores and mutexs

• Learn the differences between synchronization and concurrency

• Grasp the complexities of race conditions and common concurrent blockers

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