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The End....
*Unfortunately, I realized the last and final copy of my essay on cryptology is on the computer at school and I completely forgot to email it back along with my bibliography, but this is almost exactly the same, just missing one small paragraph*
Kelly Crowley
English 10
Jennifer Goen
Cryptology Through the Ages
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Believe it or not, cryptology has a lot to do with languages. Some of the same concepts can be used to crack a code as to decipher an unfamiliar message. Cryptology can be important to communications, translating messages, so on and so forth ( Read more... ) -
One Way Functions
*This is building on the previous post*
Plaintext and ciphertext can be easily converted into numbers...but turning a plaintext number into a ciphertext number is more difficult. Transactions from one number into another that easier in one direction and harder in the opposite direction, these are called One-Way-Functions.
Example: Anagrams. It is ( Read more... ) -
PIN
*I don't know if you've noticed but these past couple of entries are sort of in a series. This is because I wrote them down before my computer crashed (yikes!) and am just now getting the chance to post them.*
I do actually have an ATM card, so I will again be using myself as an example.
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That Little Plastic Card of Wonders
Society used to pay with money, now we pay with cards. It's not an absence of money we work with, but a representation. Just because you buy something with a credit card doesn't mean it's free, you may not be using cash but you still pay. But....I'm pretty sure you already know that. At least, I hope you do.
First came the plastic card with raised ( Read more... ) -
Identity
Nowadays, when you go out in the world (especially adults) you have to prove who you are....over and over and over again. For people it can be as simple as recognizing our physical appearances. I know what my mom looks like and I identify her by that...mom looks like mom. But things are more complicated than that. When you buy, you use that plastic ( Read more... ) -
Darkness at Noon
I'm taking a tiny bit of a break about modern cryptology in computers for this post. For David's Modern Euro AP class we have been assinged to read Arthur Koestler's Darkness at Noon. In this novel the hero, Rubashov is an aging revolutionary, imprisoned and psychologically tortured by the Party to which he has dedicated his life (think USSR purge ( Read more... ) -
DES
DES: Data Encryption Standard.
DES was introduced by the American government in 1977 and was initially developed by IBM. In its complete version this American invention can only be used with the permission of the American government. (Information courtesy of Code Breaking: A history and exploration by Rudolf Kippenhahn)
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Enigmas, Computers, and Codes...Oh My!
Hello! I want to apologize for disappearing, my computer had a virus that I had to sort out...but now I can get all the posts up that I missed!
When I was researching for this checkpoint and the last one I found some interesting videos. This fist video is a brief, but more detailed explanation of how an enigma WWII machine works.
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A response to Genius: The Modern View
Genius: The Modern View -by David Brooks ( Read more... )
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