Strategising your way to clean code
22 Sep 2016
The Strategy design pattern is neat. It decouples algorithm implementations
(the how) from the objects that use them (the what). This separation means the cost
of changing either the algorithm or the code that uses it is nice and low
because...
A JSON rabbit hole
07 Jul 2016
I fell down a really curious rabbit hole the other day and thought I'd share
the adventure. I was using a gem that handles a response from an API (pretty
standard, right?).
The response was handled inside the gem like so:
def get(path, options...
Cryptanalysis - Vigenère Cipher
04 May 2015
In this post I cover the Vigenère cipher. It's an encryption system that builds on the Caesar cipher covered in the previous post, with the additional twist that it uses multiple shift values instead of one.
Caesar's cipher shifts every character...
Cryptanalysis - Caesar Cipher
22 Jan 2015
How do we make sure the messages we send are only read by the intended recipient? This problem has been bothering people for a long time, with examples of encryption being used to hide messages going back to ancient Egypt, some 4000 years ago.
I will...
Number Theory Part 2
17 Nov 2014
This post covers more of the number theory I found useful for understanding the basics of public key cryptography. I've covered Fermat's little Theorem, Euler's Theorem, eth roots, and discrete logarithms. Once this stuff is covered you should be able...
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