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Do you have the brains for cybersecurity?

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Re: Do you have the brains for cybersecurity?

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Post by Moppers »

massemphasis wrote: post #7
tshadwell wrote: post #6

What area of 'cybersecurity' would I be finding myself breaking substitution ciphers based on wingdings in? I work in the information security industry, and I feel like I'm missing something but I really have to ask what these are relevant to. Cryptography, which this appears to be a reduced form of is mostly tangential and very nuanced relative to the ciphers in this challenge. I often feel my line of work is grossl…

I think this is geared for kids, and not really adults.

Must be pretty smart kids. One of the last puzzles is very hard.

Re: Do you have the brains for cybersecurity?

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Post by ultramancool »

tshadwell wrote: post #6

What area of 'cybersecurity' would I be finding myself breaking substitution ciphers based on wingdings in? I work in the information security industry, and I feel like I'm missing something but I really have to ask what these are relevant to. Cryptography, which this appears to be a reduced form of is mostly tangential and very nuanced relative to the ciphers in this challenge. I often feel my line of work is grossl…

If anyone is looking for a seriously great introduction to cryptography check out the Art of the Problem series on YouTube, don't have a link right now because mobile but it is probably the best easily accessible explanation of real world cryptography I've ever seen.

EDIT: https://m.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLB4D701646DAF0817

Re: Do you have the brains for cybersecurity?

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Post by luch »

tshadwell wrote: post #6

What area of 'cybersecurity' would I be finding myself breaking substitution ciphers based on wingdings in? I work in the information security industry, and I feel like I'm missing something but I really have to ask what these are relevant to. Cryptography, which this appears to be a reduced form of is mostly tangential and very nuanced relative to the ciphers in this challenge. I often feel my line of work is grossl…

> I often feel my line of work is grossly misrepresented by dizzying fields of esoteric numbers and references to ancient cryptography when I'm happy to find myself many of my days engrossed in the security characteristics of some powerful technology used right now in the real world.

Have you never worked a custom written crypto algo in your line of work ? For example, countries' army are the bane of sysadmins since they implement about every standard of networking since computer exists.

Working in infosec, you hardly have to crack an akbash cipher, but I'm pretty sure you'd had to understand a closed source algorithm.

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