Sorry for the lack of action here on the site, but I’ve been quite busy over the past couple of days. After a weekend of not doing any work towards a project that is due next Wednesday, I have been trying to make up for lost time and finish the project. The project is to write an application that will encrypt and decrypt a document using the block cipher (if you don’t know what that is, don’t worry about it). At first I didn’t think it would be too challenging, but then I realized I didn’t exactly know how to do it. After some research and time working on it, I’m back to my original verdict that it shouldn’t be too hard to finish up (although I’m sure that will change the more I work on it and with the road blocks that I will surely hit on my way to finishing it).

I would like to share one of those “Holy Shit” moments that I had today though whilst working on my project. So I’m sitting here and I’m trying to figure out how to do something within the program. I think about it, look up information on the net, and decide “This will never work.” But for stupidity’s sake, I try it anyways. Much to my surprise, I receive the output I was in search for. “Holy shit. There’s no way this works,” I told myself. But after testing it, it did indeed work. So how about those apples? Moral of the story: exhaust all ideas, because one of those stupid ideas just might pay off. Anyways, I really must get back to figuring out how to do this project. Take care.