Local Teen Works to Advance Encryption Technology Henry Herald (08/13/07) Jackson, Johnny
as it appeared in the August 15, 2007 edition of ACM TechNews.
Billy Dorminy is still two years away from entering college, but he has already received $40,000 in scholarships, including a $10,000 scholarship from the Davidson Fellows Scholarship Program for his research and presentation on "Improper Fractional Base Encryption," new encryption software that uses the concepts of improper fractional bases. By using reduced redundancy representations of improper fractional bases, Dorminy created a more secure encryption system that requires less computer memory and uses both confusion and diffusion to protect data. Improper Fractional Base Encryption is the first secure method of encryption using improper fractional bases that allows a second message to be stored undetectably within the body of a main message. This year alone, Dorminy has received numerous scholarships, honors, and awards, including the Scientific Depth and Rigor scholarship from Alcatel-Lucent, a perfect score on the 2007 American Mathematics Competition 10. Click Here to View Full Article
