It's just a simple bit of praise, but Asato's practically beaming when he hears it. It feels good, knowing that he's understand things and catching on with what everyone else already knows.

"Oh. Um."

He fiddles with his device for a moment, tail thumping against the ground.

"Making things secret. I can do it sometimes, but I just push the buttons until something happens. And it doesn't really work right."

Encryption. He sucks at it, big time. But that's something he'd like to know how to do for his own purposes. There's something else, something he wants to be able to use in order to actually help the others on the ship, and that's... Well, he doesn't know how to put it.

"And the hidden network. I don't understand it."