{"id":1112,"date":"2013-03-25T08:51:42","date_gmt":"2013-03-25T14:51:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/derekbruff.org\/blogs\/fywscrypto\/?p=1112"},"modified":"2013-03-25T08:54:40","modified_gmt":"2013-03-25T14:54:40","slug":"crypto-posts-on-wonders-marvels-and-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/derekbruff.org\/blogs\/fywscrypto\/2013\/03\/25\/crypto-posts-on-wonders-marvels-and-more\/","title":{"rendered":"Crypto Posts on Wonders & Marvels–and More!"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Wonders-Marvels\"<\/a>I would like to brag on the students in the fall 2012 offering of this course. You may recall that they blogged regularly<\/a> here on the course blog during the semester. That was, in part, to prepare them for their second major writing assignment<\/a>, which asked them to write a blog post on a code or cipher we hadn’t already covered in the course and pitch it to Vanderbilt professor Holly Tucker, editor of the blog Wonders & Marvels<\/a>. Professor Tucker graciously led one of our class sessions last fall, helping the students understand the nature of her history blog and its audience.<\/p>\n

Eight of the fifteen students in the course successfully pitched their blog posts to Professor Tucker and followed through with posting their writing<\/a> on Wonders & Marvels. I’m proud of these students for being willing to share their work with such a big audience–Wonders & Marvels receives about 30,000 visitors each month.<\/p>\n

One of the students has since connected with an even larger audience: Alberto Perez’s post, “How the US Cracked Japan’s ‘Purple Encryption Machine’ at the Dawn of World War II<\/a>,” was republished by the science blog io9, which had over 650,000<\/a> visitors last month. Congrats to Alberto for writing such an interesting post!<\/p>\n

Below are links to all eight crypto posts that appeared on Wonders & Marvels. Take a few minutes and read through the students’ great work!<\/p>\n