Vitas, being sick.

Vitas is sick. Wicked sick.

Thoughts On Cryptography: Part 1

I think pretty much every person gets some kind of an idea for code, you know, to avoid people reading their journals, or to safeguard communications with other friends. I have passed through several models of alphabet over the years, and I intend to line them out over some time. In case someone else has some kind of a desire for such things. I am afraid I cannot tell exactly what my current method is, but I will show the thought process and basic idea.

Where does cryptography begin for a child? Probably as one of those ridiculous cereal box riddles, where some kind of shape, symbol, or graphic is used as a placeholder for an English letter. Of course, after the riddle is over, it becomes apparent that learning the symbols to a point of fluency would be wildly difficult. Thus I introduce my first tenet of solid amateur cryptography:

• A cryptographic set must be able to be learned and used with no written help by a person of average intelligence; the set must require no ‘Cheat sheets’ or other such physical implements for a normal person to encode or decode the block.

Recent Paper

This is a copy of a recent essay I wrote on my personal ideology. If for some reason that interests you, go ahead.

Quiz Results.doc

Okay, look, people...

I am of the opinion that I talk way to much about myself. But that's kind of too bad. Because this is going to pretty much be about me. I won't bother with an intro, because if you're actually here, I personally told you to go here, and it's really hard to misspell something badly enough to spell alexcrist.com on accident. Nonetheless, I will try to be interesting. For those of you who do know me, that is, all of you, you know that that's a stretch at best.