Inspiration
The inspiration for my project came from a museum I visited in France. At the museum, there was an exhibit about the ciphers used during WW2 and beyond. During brainstorming, when I was thinking how to help people with technology, I thought of cryptography because it's really similar to coding and can be easily automated with machines.
What it does
The morse code "cipher" translate strings into morse code, and the enigma cipher encrypts strings by "randomizing" each letter
How I built it
Lucas and I built both ciphers using Python at first, then created an HTML site to host them. We built the ciphers using basic Python that changes the inputted string letter by letter into a new string.
Challenges I ran into
We researched many ciphers, such as the M-209, the Lorenz and other ciphers. However, these were too hard to code, and required cryptography skills and understanding ciphers we didn't have.
Accomplishments that I'm proud of
In my opinion, the website looks really good, and I'm happy that all the python functions smoothly.
What I learned
I learned a lot more about the history of ciphers in WW2, especially the ones used by Germany.
What's next for Lucas + Max: Encryptr
This is it for the Encryptr, but maybe in the future, once I've learned more Python and more about cryptography, I hope to add more ciphers to the website.
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