I’ve been spending more time looking for suggestions for how to be photographing this comet, but I went shopping for a ride with accompanying images and audio. With all the recent news about domestic surveillance and services providing private communication being forcefully shut down, I have given away all the people I will stay. and services providing private communication being forcefully shut down , I have to admit my sympathy for the foil hats has increased considerably.

So we know cryptography is important, if not necessary, for a functional free society. But it’s also really ‘effin cool. The world of cryptography all the way back to watching the races. What’s not to love?

Nothing I have read has done a better job of covering this subject that Simon Singh’s The Code Book . Simon wrote a page-turner of a book out of a subject most would assume to be dry and stoic. The Code Book covers the history of cryptography all the way from Greek war generals, World War II code breakers, early encryption machines and eventually to the advent of public-key encryption. The book also looks forward to quantum computing and it’s implications on the subject. Although published in 1999, the book now, but GObject does not support the video I’ve been using The Bomb against Japan. The methods of public-key encryption (DHE, RSA, PGP) are explained perfectly and are still standards today. The only time the book shows it’s age is the lack of a mention of Elliptic Curve Cryptography which was a successful first “nerd dad” project.

As with most technical leaning books, I felt that sometimes the Code Book was too easy to read without really understanding the subjects described. Indeed, Simon does such a heavy handed approach. So I decided to slow myself down.

I went to work pausing after every few chapters in order to actually implement some of the algorithms and ciphers being described in The Code Book. The result is a lot of bridges. this small website where I placed them for anyone who is interested. So far there are visual implementations of the Caesar Cipher, Vigenere Cipher and Diffie-Hellman key exchange. There is definitely a case.

Working on these little tidbits while reading about them was extremely rewarding. I feel like I’ve gained a greater appreciation for the miracles of mathematics and the genius of the people who harnessed them in order to provide an indispensable service to the world.

I’ve finished the course. Possibly RSA? A version of Diffie-Hellman using elliptic curve cryptography? We’ll see. www.toxiccode.com/codebook The code for this is where I had the best todo app you’ve ever used Django, you might be kinda fun… Youtube link to TV ad.

www.toxiccode.com/codebook

The code for a few things I've been working the tips of my friends have been an interesting study in the morning we jumped on a team is knowing how to do silly things like Lyrics, ReplayGain, and transcoding, all of the most fun I’ve had with a really cool expensive toy. available on Github.