As was said in my last post, I’m doing cryptopals. Just last night I finished Challenge 23. I was able to successfully clone a 32-bit Mersenne Twister pseudorandom number generator (PRNG) from its output. You can see how I did this by checking out my solution in my github repo. If you’re like me when […]

Cryptography fascinates me. It’s amazing how critical cryptography is to the internet and the digital economy. Even more amazing to me is how simple it is to crack if it’s insecure. I don’t have a computer science degree; I took some courses on algorithmic design in college, but felt so totally lost and overwhelmed that […]