Milestone V: Privacy and Encryption

This being my group's turn into deciding how best to show the class what privacy and encryption was all about through our lab assignment, I was able to look more in depth at what we were trying to show. We wanted to make things fun, and to also understand the significance and importance of this issue while doing anything online. Snyder and Garson hit the topic of privacy hard. Privacy is such a big issue in our lives right now. First off being able to understand the laws and acts that have been put in place, will allow the public to understand what they can do to help be their own first line of defense when they feel that their lives are being watched. Being able to tell telemarketers to take them off of their call list and if they call back, a person can sue the company, allows people to step up and take control of who calls them. To also understand that there is a way to encrypt to code messages allows people to gain more control of what people know and gain access to. I guess the more I thought about encryption I do not think I would ever use it because I do not think that I have/know any information that is worth coding. But I guess in a way it is my 'ah-ha' moment in this chapter, and I guess I give out the key so you can decipher what I am trying to get across to you. The key is take the position of the letter and shift down 2 spots and use that position number. This is going to be the symmetric key for the next part of my post.

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It is incredible to think that some people encrypt everything they do because it takes so much more time and effort than one usually wants to take to a write a message. A software would help make this so much easier, by typing in the message and then the software puts it into code and another person puts the code in and the message comes out right. Wow, encryption, it is cool to try to use, but it is very time consuming and sometimes confusing if you lose your spot while typing out the code. I was going to try to do my whole blog in encryption but it would have taken forever for me to write and forever for you to figure it out. Good Luck with what I tried, hopefully it is not too hard. Just remember than some of the numbers are not just single numbers, that there are some double numbers and at the end of the alphabet go back to the beginning of the alphabet for the shift. This is actually fun, but way too much time to figure it out the code. If you want the answer to the above encrypted message (it is something simple), but if you really want it, just comment and I'll send it to you. Good Luck!!