Wednesday, October 2, 2013

Sections 5.1-5.4

Interesting: I felt like this encryption method itself was really interesting--how do people come up with so many cool and crazy methods of encryption/decryption?!? But I though it was really cool how it covered a broad range of mathematics--binary, matrices, GF(2^8), modular arithmetic, etc.

Difficult: I feel like reading these processes is not very easy to understand, because it's not the same as applying and it's hard for me to visualize what I would need to do when pretty much everything they talk about is very abstract. But the homework and lecture will definitely help me better make the connection and understand how to tackle this kind of encryption/decryption.

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