How can malware code get around being detected? Well, one way is to convert the strings that identify it (such as for…
I love ciphers, and I think they are food for your brain. In fact, they reveal the skills required for next generation jobs…
Morse code has a bit of a problem, as we need to insert a small pause between the letters, and between the words. In its…
Oh, I love ciphers. An interesting cipher is AMSCO, and where we create a 5x5 grid with a key. We then lay out our plaintext in a…
Lester S. Hill created the Hill cipher, which uses matrix manipulation. With this we have a matrix operator on the plaintext:
which is used to encode, and then the decoder is the inverse of this:
I have a deep love of cracking ciphers, and I love the Go programming language, so let’s “Go” in hunt of gold bug.