Saturday, September 14, 2013

Assignment 6

This sections was very interesting to read, though the methods of decrypting a Vigenere cipher are still a little fuzzy to me.  It makes sense how the cipher works, but the method of finding the key using dot products still doesn't exactly make sense to me.  I kind of get it, but it's a little confusing why the maximum dot product appears when the proper shift is found.

However, this code seems very usable to me.  It sounds quite familiar, actually.  I think it might have been used the movie "The Prestige" to encode a journal.  I'm not sure, though.  It makes sense now how a cipher can be developed that uses multiple keys.  In fact, encryption keys in general make a lot more sense because of this cipher.  I like it.  I kind of want to start sending messages with this cipher.

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