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It's a great way to learn. In my cryptography classes we did all of the algorithms by hand (often shortened, so 16 rounds of something would be dropped to 3 or
by IanCal 6y ago
It's a great way to learn. In my cryptography classes we did all of the algorithms by hand (often shortened, so 16 rounds of something would be dropped to 3 or min bytes dropped) on pen and paper as homework. Hard but it really did make a lot stick in my mind about how things worked.
- userbinator 6y agoIt's also a great way to debug. I've written video/image codecs and when things go subtly wrong, decoding the raw bitstream by hand and comparing carefully with the decoder output has been the best way to figure out the problem. It can be quite tedious, but as the phrase goes, definitely "builds character". Or as someone else put it, "How can you tell the computer what to do, if you can't do it yourself?"