Hello Tumblr, Aspen here. Apparently I haven't posted much (or at all) on our account, but that may change as we're attempting to set up a fronting schedule rather than just having people pop in randomly during the day.
I've been fronting a lot today due to Kori "not feeling peopley," and took it upon myself to learn about cryptography. So far I've learned that asymmetric encryption is complicated.
Oh, the equations the examples used are straightforward enough. Easy to read at least. But even a "simple" example of how to apply them results in a massive number that standard calculators refuse to crunch. There was, I kid you not, exponentiation to the 323rd power in one of them. And that's barely a fraction of the number actual encryption algorithms could impose on a file.
Now I see why people put such stock in encryption. Without technological help, a human (or team thereof) could never crack even a simple string like "hi"
That's enough rambling from me for now, goodbye Tumblr.
