The ADFGVX Cipher

The first in a series of many blog posts I hope to be making as I go on an adventure of learning Cryptography through Programming. Today’s entry is about the ADFGVX cipher, used in World War 1, and first used by me because it was the first on the list.

re-moay gi-pay tenizing-laay

I got bored. So sue me. Redone in C++ (correctly this time, and probably more efficient than this or this.) On a side note, GeSHi doesn’t take escaped characters well, hence the random comments in isPunctuation…

Rotating Bits

Under normal circumstances, you can only ask for a bit rotation using assembly code, however, it is possible to imitate rotation through code.

Goofy Sort

You know it’s an easy algorithm to program when you’re done writing it, before the teacher is done explaining it…

Moving to Wordpress

Hey guys, Mike here. Here’s the deal: I’ve decided to split off my code development of the ShiftedBits framework away from the actual website where I talk about this (as stuff would never get done otherwise) and just move to a wordpress blog, and shove the code into a git repository. I decided to do [...]

Right, So…

I’m in class right now. Unable to do anything.

Concepts of Law != Concepts of Reality

So recently, there’s been this big hullabaloo from Courtney Love (widow of Kurt Cobain) about Kurt’s inclusion in Guitar Hero 5.

This is well past due…

So as you may have noticed I’ve been in and out for most of the preceding weeks. There are reasons for this, I tell you! And it’s not just “Zach and Miri Make a Porno” references either.

Holy Cow

It’s been a long time, hasn’t it!?