My son turns 14 this month, but we still have bedtime stories. Currently, the bedtime story is Simon Singh’s The Code Book. While reading the description of the Vigenére cipher, I started to think about how I’d code up an implementation, and that led to my first webOS application. Cipher Suite is a small collection of classic ciphers, and is currently in the Palm beta feed. Hopefully a few people will give it a try and let me know if it sets their phone on fire or drowns some kittens or anything. Having gotten it that far, I thought I’d share a little bit about how the app was developed.
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