Gosh, I don't know if I have such a profound answer. I started programming when I was 10 years old back in 1995. My parents had bought me a little toy computer for Christmas that was able to compile and run simple programs written in BASIC. I don't know how I put up with programming on a one line ~40 character LCD display but that's what got me interested. I showed off to my friends my ability to write "password protection" (which just did an "if" check against a hardcoded password). As a kid I always loved seeing technology protect things (ACCESS DENIED was one of my favorite phrases). Now that I'm an adult I realize that crypto is a difficult beast and that I am not suited for making any significant contributions there but I still like reading about it. Two years after that I discovered HTML and made a simple web page on my ISP's free hosting space. I never really thought about the why of it...it was just a fun thing to do and continues to be a fun thing to do today.
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Gosh, I don't know if I have such a profound answer. I started programming when I was 10 years old back in 1995. My parents had bought me a little toy computer for Christmas that was able to compile and run simple programs written in BASIC. I don't know how I put up with programming on a one line ~40 character LCD display but that's what got me interested. I showed off to my friends my ability to write "password protection" (which just did an "if" check against a hardcoded password). As a kid I always loved seeing technology protect things (ACCESS DENIED was one of my favorite phrases). Now that I'm an adult I realize that crypto is a difficult beast and that I am not suited for making any significant contributions there but I still like reading about it. Two years after that I discovered HTML and made a simple web page on my ISP's free hosting space. I never really thought about the why of it...it was just a fun thing to do and continues to be a fun thing to do today.