One suggestion, don't go to the people in charge of technology. In my experience at every highschool i've been at, the supposed technology 'teachers' know far less than even the average student in programming class... Get a teacher who likes you to sponser it (if such a thing is necessary).
Why is everyone talking up COBOL? I have an older AS/400 and I use RPG, a much better and more productive business-oriented language. RPG is considered the primary language of OS/400 (like C to Linux), and every major AS/400 app i've worked on was written in RPG. OS/400 is, indeed, difficult to learn and is not for the faint of heart. However, I've never seen or heard of an AS/400 crashing or being compromised because of a security flaw, something that I cannot say about any other OS I've used. They are so stable and reliable, in fact, that Microsoft used to use them for their core financial applications. When this came to light, they hurredly outsourced the AS/400s so they could make the claim 'we dont have any.'
Just a thought, most people should stick with Linux or BSD...
In other words, it generally takes an infeasable amount of time to 'crack' a key that large. It also depends on the algo. For example, the algo MS Word uses is 40 bit weak and can usually be cracked in a day or three by a powerful computer. A 2048 RSA algo, on the other hand, you're lucky to ever crack it. This kind of thing really merits a QC...
-tehpenguin
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One suggestion, don't go to the people in charge of technology. In my experience at every highschool i've been at, the supposed technology 'teachers' know far less than even the average student in programming class... Get a teacher who likes you to sponser it (if such a thing is necessary).
Why is everyone talking up COBOL? I have an older AS/400 and I use RPG, a much better and more productive business-oriented language. RPG is considered the primary language of OS/400 (like C to Linux), and every major AS/400 app i've worked on was written in RPG. OS/400 is, indeed, difficult to learn and is not for the faint of heart. However, I've never seen or heard of an AS/400 crashing or being compromised because of a security flaw, something that I cannot say about any other OS I've used. They are so stable and reliable, in fact, that Microsoft used to use them for their core financial applications. When this came to light, they hurredly outsourced the AS/400s so they could make the claim 'we dont have any.'
Just a thought, most people should stick with Linux or BSD...
In other words, it generally takes an infeasable amount of time to 'crack' a key that large. It also depends on the algo. For example, the algo MS Word uses is 40 bit weak and can usually be cracked in a day or three by a powerful computer. A 2048 RSA algo, on the other hand, you're lucky to ever crack it. This kind of thing really merits a QC... -tehpenguin