1/10/15

01/10/15

I've been reading 'The Code Book' in increments over the past few weeks, making selective notes, and am now half-way through.  I've learned about various important events in history have played a part in the development of cryptography, as well as many different types of ciphers, such as the Vigenere cipher and other polyalphabetic ciphers and homophonic substitution ciphers.  I also listened the first of a podcast series on Radio 4 about the history of coding, however, it, unfortunately, seems to be more about computer coding rather than cryptography, so far.
I've been filling out the relevant forms for my EPQ as I go along and I've written the first draft of my introductory paragraph of my essay, though it doesn't contain much technical content, and is more of an explanation of the rest of the essay.  I'm meeting my EPQ officer tomorrow for another meeting, so I'll see what she thinks of it then.