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Codemoji – A fun tool to learn about ciphers
- dvcc 10y agoUnless I am missing something, this didn't really teach me anything? It's more of a magical emoji black box. On a sidenote, Codemoji broke my back button (:() and seems way over-animated for a simple three box form.
- etherworks 10y agoIn the onboarding, you can see that the idea is to teach about the basics of ciphers. ie "early ciphers shifted the letters of the alphabet". So this is for lay users who haven't been exposed to the basics.
- wingerlang 10y agoI think that sentence was the only clue to how it "kinda" works, and it is gone quite quickly.
- _asummers 10y agoBack button broke for me too in Chrome OSX. Takes you to a 404 page. https://learning.mozilla.org/codemoji/#/404 https://learning.mozilla.org/codemoji/#/404
- Grollicus 10y agoSubstitution Ciphers, still not dead since Caesar. But the website looks cool at least.
- e12e 10y agoSubstitution is still a pretty big part of modern ciphers? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S-box https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S-box
- Eduard 10y agothis website is buggy.
- hateeverything 10y agowhats with everything being dumbed down so hard like im being talked to like an 8 year old
- fabrice_d 10y agoBecause you're just not the target, and that's fine. According to https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2016/06/28/meet-codemoji-mozillas-new-game-for-teaching-encryption-basics-with-emoji/ https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2016/06/28/meet-codemoji-mozil... this is "a fun, educational tool that introduces everyday Internet users to ciphers — the basic building blocks of encryption — using emoji"
- vortico 10y agoThe website was posted here to show your 8 year olds. Although I think it would be just as effective to just tell your kids "You scramble your messages with a key and only a person with the key can unscramble your messages." And then proceed to explain to them the conjugate DH exchange, the number field seive algorithm, and common block ciphers.
- cyberferret 10y agoBe nice if they could incorporate this into a custom keyboard for iOS/Android etc. so that people could send 'coded' messages in situ, rather than having to resort to the website to encode/decode the text. Nice way to introduce cipher techniques to younger people though.
- ace_33 10y agoYou should incorporate other cipher's with emojis as well, give the users more options. That could be fun
- litzer 10y agoBaffling that an organization that regularly pioneers new web standards makes my back button useless upon entering the website
- userbinator 10y ago"Not all the pieces working together perfectly" is something that just seems to happen whenever there are large organisations... I remember a few years ago when Microsoft Azure's web interface was completely broken in the latest version of Internet Explorer at the time.
- dzolvd 10y agoread it as Cod-emoji... Fishing for the best way to express yourself.
- qjighap 10y ago"Ciphers are math at work" and then gives a substitution cipher as an example. This topic is challenging enough to explain without trying to explain the f(x) -> y concept without a real need for it, but pretty picture right? I know I am taking this too seriously.