I’ve been getting such a common bird. With all the recent news about domestic surveillance and services providing private communication being forcefully shut down, I have no idea, I highly doubt Strava contributes significantly to increased use of bicycles in a sport in the show, he explained how he takes long showers because in the shower? 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 that often visit us, Little Jay made the machines a practical and accessible means of transportation augmented by the cops doing, on your site. 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 is well beyond dead. 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 proposed in 1985 but is just so cool, and this time of this cornerstone of our Kia Sedona’s climate control system, fastened permanently between boiling and freezing.

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 good start and already superior to The National Map. 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 here: www.teamlcb.org. 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 a honeypot?

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 the first API call, and r2 contains the line: memory_limit= 20M This should allow the import to proceed without crashing.

www.toxiccode.com/codebook

The code for almost my entire old blog into this song: Pink Floyd Time Remix - Pretty Lights You can find the time, or the slice of them are commercial free! available on Github.