About Me edit
I am a high school student, currently in my junior year. I am fascinated by science fiction novels, orchestral music, and cryptography. I am hoping to someday become a high school or college band teacher, a novelist, or a programmer (I've dabbled in C, C++, JAVA, and HTML).
The Challenge edit
For anyone reading this, I urge you to attempt to solve this encrypted message. If you can also tell me the encryption methods I used, then I will try to find some way to reward you. :p
"Ca ok, uy xyr ze js, -- rlky xe zsm ctibyxws: --
Gpsrmor 'goa zaosiy qt rlo wxvh ca ftjpmd
Rlo teosqt nvh krdwtb au wecrnmiebf lergtzm,
Yz ze ynqi krre dqixvac i fkd en gzudjeka,
Kxq hb ezbwauxv ksn ywkq?" - Sirsic
Please send any questions or possible solutions to my email address. Anyone who decrypts the message will have their name posted here. Once 10 people have solved it, I'll probably post a new one.
This is the only clue that is being given to you: clavier.
Decrypted the Message edit
- None yet
Discovered the Cipher edit
- None yet
Interests edit
As I said above, I am fascinated by a wide variety of things. My favorite science fiction novels include the Ender's Game series, along with the parallel Ender's Shadow series, and various Star Wars novels. I also like reading certain fantasy books, which includes almost all of R.A. Salvatore's works and the Lord of the Rings trilogy. In the music world, I feel like I've found my calling. I am a great french horn player, even though I only started in November 2006, and I've been playing trumpet in my middle and high school bands for about 5 years; I also played clarinet for a few months and took piano lessons for a year and a half. I have been working on possibly composing music, but there are few music composer applications out for the Linux operating system. I've loved cryptography ever since I bought Elonka Dunin's book, "The Mammoth Book of Secret Codes and Cryptograms" last year. I am still amazed at how many ways there are to encode messages and at how difficult the Vigenère cipher can be to decode, yet it is easy to use. I have also been interested for a while in the theater and the "silver screen". My family has always told me that I am great at creating and imitating voices and accents to use. I haven't been in any big productions around my school, partially since I missed the auditions for Shakespeare's The Tempest earlier this year. I have had only one role that made it to the stage, and that was as a French waiter in the one-act play "Reservations", by Lisa Rand.
Future Plans edit
I am planning on going to UCF after I graduate, most likely majoring in music or computer science. I also want to someday go backpacking through Europe, maybe visiting Germany, Denmark, and Sweden while I'm there. As a career, I am thinking mostly of being a band teacher at a high school or university. I am also thinking of being a novelist (if I could ever finish any of the stories I've tried writing) or a programmer, possibly with video games.
My Username edit
My username came from a conversation over dinner not long after President George W. Bush was re-elected. My grandmother, who is extremely anti-Bush, went on a little rant about how Bush would probably try and make America a monarchy if he could. I added that to a nickname used for him.
I have used this username almost everywhere I have gone on the internet, and only one other person I can think of has used the same name anywhere. Many of my friends have shortened the name to KD, KingD, or King in conversation over the years.
Languages edit
| en | This user is a native speaker of the English language. |
| ase-1 | This user can communicate at a basic level in American Sign Language. |
| es-2 | Este usuario puede contribuir con un nivel intermedio de español. |
| C-2 | This user is an intermediate C programmer. |