Encrypted Dreams

(aka Deep Crack)

We got done with class today about ten til eight. So we went almost twelve hours. Mostly working on cryptography. I expect that I'll have some funky dreams tonight. If I can decrypt them, I'll share, but I expect I will not be able to decipher them. My practice test scores today were 73% and 77%. Not doing as well as I'd like. Certainly not well enough to decipher dreams. Unless I were to utilize the technique used to crack DES encryption in 23 hours, which we were told was called "Deep Crack". I thought that was pretty darn funny and "cracked" an immature smile, my mind drifting from the topic at hand ever so slightly.

Of course, my progress isn't helped by the fact that my alergies are significantly impacting my focus. My nose has been running so much that I had to leave class for a little today to blow my nose about eighteen times straight. I was trying to avoid taking an allergy pill during class because they make me groggy, which is not something that helps with the study of cryptanalysis. So I had to give in today and break out a pill. And I seem to be going downhill. My nose has run so much in the last three days that my throat is now sore, raw, and bone dry. I've been drinking upwards of a glass of water/juice an hour the last couple of days, but I can't seem to quench my thirst. Though my bladder is getting cleaned out real good from all the flow-through.

Tomorrow is Telecommunications, Network, and Internet security, which should be easier than Cryptography, but it will be a lot of material. I need a party break.