1) To be completely and utterly honest, I just don't understand binary numbers and how they work. I am still trying to understand 2.8 which explains them and how you can represent everything in 0's and 1's. Why is it more advantageous for us to do this? For one time pads, I understand how it is so efficient and secure, but isn't the key extremely long? I mostly just don't understand the binary system which I think is causing the big gap in my understanding for the rest of the sections.
2) I do think it is interesting that this can work and somehow we can encrypt and decrypt so speedily. I am happy because I understand modulo much better now than I did while taking Math 290 and now I can see why it is actually so useful and applicable to us in our world today.
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