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I've really been digging into all things encryption and I found this via stumble today.

http://www.moserware.com/2009/09/stick- ... anced.html It's a fun, good read that is fairly layman's in terms of explaining how things like encryption, and more of their "behind-the-scenes" stuff works like CBC and initialization vectors, all with really well though out drawings that make it easy to "see". Neat.

Awesome! (And very timely for me; I just had to implement encryption/signing of files for a project at work this past week, and was sort of wondering what AES was doing under the hood.)

It lost me at Act 4 though!

just brew it! wrote:

Awesome! (And very timely for me; I just had to implement encryption/signing of files for a project at work this past week, and was sort of wondering what AES was doing under the hood.)

It lost me at Act 4 though!

Me too a bit, I never went too far after highschool trig / alg 2 - So I have some more learning to do - but what a nice guy to draw all that up I just recently had to use a rijndael decryption method (nicely implemented in the .net framework, but it does all the lifting) so I was naturally curious as to what is really going on.

That's an awesome comic. The math isn't really hard, just obfuscated (as most math seems to be). very nice execution on the part of the author.

steelcity_ballin wrote:

Me too a bit, I never went too far after highschool trig / alg 2 - So I have some more learning to do - but what a nice guy to draw all that up I just recently had to use a rijndael decryption method (nicely implemented in the .net framework, but it does all the lifting) so I was naturally curious as to what is really going on.

Just remember to abide by the Foot-Shooting Prevention Agreement.

Saw that comin earlier this week. It's golden.