This is my reflection of my project on the Scytale Cipher for my cybersecurity course. We had learned about ciphers early on in the year but we went back to review them for an end of year project. The project was to choose an ancient cipher and create a newscast on it. My classmates and I researched and learned about the Scytale cipher, a cipher that the Greek city-state Sparta used for wartime communication.
The project I found most intriguing because of my affinity for history, personally I found it exciting to research about the period in which it was used and how it was used. Me and my classmates (this was a group project) found this project to be of little difficulty but extremely engaging and entertaining as we had to film a video for the newscast. This project was definitely on the more relaxed projects we’ve done but engaging and informative nonetheless.
My classmates and I had a ton of fun making this project as the video we created was set in the period of ancient Greece, so of course we played as ancient Greek gods. We made a skit pretending to be a news channel in ancient Greece. We had a lot of fun and still put the information needed in the newscast. The best part of the project was the fact that we had to use a cipher we had not previously known about so it exposed us to a new concept in a fun and engaging manner.