1. To be honest, the hardest thing for me to understand was the fact that someone actually forgot the code names and what they stood for. Personally, I thought that they would take better care of that information. It is also ironic that someone stepped forward explaining that they did remember the missing names, but that information was filed away and they didn't find it until 1987. Especially when this is referring to scripture, you would think they would take better care of that information.
2. I loved hearing all of this history because until the lecture, I had no clue that cryptography would have a connection to the church but it totally makes sense now. One of my favorite ciphers was the one where there is a grid with three letters in each square. Each letter has either none, one, or two '. I thought it was really clever and it looks a lot cooler and more foreign when you don't know the code. Overall, the lecture just made me a lot more interested in Cryptography and it's place not just in history, but in our society now. It helped me to see more relevance of the subject and helped instill a desire within me to keep working hard, even though it is sometimes difficult for me and it is just the beginning of the semester!
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