An Old Program of Mine Once Again Becomes Useful...

I received a fun email this morning, in which the sender asked if they might use my Java implementation of the Advanced Encryption Standard (AES). It is rather fun for a 6-year-old program, written for a class, to be of use to someone else. That ranks up there with previous requests to use my even older Mandelbrot and Julia Set applet from both an undergraduate student and a teacher.

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