I didn’t know that we had to do a week 21 reflection because we didn’t have class that week, but everyone else wrote random things and called it their week 21 reflection, so I shall as well. However, I am combining it with the reflection week 22. I shall attempt to make it as long…
HY-2 Vocoder, brewbooks’ photostream, flickr, (CC) BY-SA 2.0 Sign reads: First widely deployed device for converting speech into a form compatible for encryption by a general purpose key generator (KG-13) for transmission over narrowband radio and telephone. Affectionately compared to Donald Duck’s voice. Vietnam War era. Hi, amateur cryptographers! Wow, once again, I am the…
William Friedman bust, austinmills, flickr, (CC) BY-SA 2.0 The ‘person’ on the left, by the way, is William Friedman, the father of cryptology. Hi everyone! Last week, we started a new unit on cryptology, the science of encrypting and decrypting information. It is unit X! (It is not X as in the Roman numeral X,…
So, following last week’s fiasco, I decided to get all my homework done on the weekend. That way, I wouldn’t be up trying to do everything on Wednesday and any problems I had could be directed to Mrs. Krummel. Well, Ashi beat me to it. When I checked my inbox, there was a message from…
So… state assessments are now kind of over (except science, yes true I know) and people have a bit more space to relax. But the homework this week honestly didn’t let me relax… but maybe that’s because I didn’t totally understand the whole thing. Especially the affine key – I was comfortable with enciphering, since…
Like Jacob, I’m doing my reflection not on Thursday, but on Wednesday. I prefer not to miss the routine work that I do. Today my schedule was jam packed; I had soccer practice for 2 hours, played/practiced piano for 1, and homework accounting for another 2 hours. And here I am at 9:15PM doing my…
As promised, this week’s reflection is being done on Wednesday to prevent forgetfulness tomorrow leading to my reflection not getting done. As of right now, I am having trouble with ciphers on the homework. I got most of them, but a couple ones that I believe to be mono-alphabetic aren’t cooperating when I try to…
Yes, I’m buried in homework again. But that doesn’t explain why or how I was late with week 26 of my reflection. As soon as I got home (I walked home, in the rain…) it was dinnertime, and then my family had a “family meeting.” It practically took from about 7:30 to 10, and by…
So we were doing cryptology this week…It was very interesting. To be honest, we had to translate a sentence into code, and the phrase had a lot of “the”s and “and”s, so I kinda just memorized what they were in the code. Eventually my mind boggled from “BRI” and “BGF”, which I had memorized as…
Yo! Kids doin’ crypto! I’m writin’ a bad white man rap, So get ready to…………….sap? I hope that failed so badly it was funny. But before we get into more cryptology, let me talk about my day in school. So, guess what we learned about today in History. a. The War of 1812 b. The…
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