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diff --git a/content/projects/python-encryption/index.md b/content/projects/python-encryption/index.md deleted file mode 100644 index 0cc198f..0000000 --- a/content/projects/python-encryption/index.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,43 +0,0 @@ ---- -title: Encryption in Python -author: Benjamin Chausse -date: 2023-10-25T20:01:27-04:00 ---- - - - -During my last year of highschool, I designed my very own text encryption -algorithm. I wrote software in python to encode and decode text using a -custom algorithm I made solely to better understand information theory. - -The class in which I did this project was designed to teach students about -managing long term endeavours. People could tackle projects related to just -about anything. One person wrote and printed a recipe books, another built a -small soap box cart, someone even built a potato canon. When it came my turn to -choose, I decided to do something related to programming where I could learn -things a bit more abstract along the way. - -During the research phase of this endeavour, I learned about classic -cryptography stories such as the ceasar cypher, enigma, symetric and asymetric -key exchanges. Realizing that some encryption methods could be broken through -easy non-bruteforce approaches intrigued me. I therefore settled to attempt a -message encoding method which would be more secure than something such as a -ceasar cypher. I wanted to build my own algorithm and this is what I came up -with: - -My initial realization was the reality that information can be represented -through a variety of methods. An image can be stored as one huge integer in -binary form. Text, encoded in ASCII, was just a list of 255 symbols. When -viewed from that perspective, an entire article could be thought of as one big -integer in base255. I decided to start by converting the source message one -might want to encrypt into decimal form as shown by this animation: - - - -The thing is, if a message can be converted from base255 to decimal, so can -the password protecting the original message. You would then have both the message -and the password in a format that feels much more intuitive to manipulate. -So this is what I did: - - - |