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May 4, 2007

Another xkcd Cartoon

A good one, on cryptography.

Posted on May 4, 2007 at 2:37 PM15 CommentsView Blog Reactions

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011011010111100100100000
011001100111010101100011
011010110110100101101110
011001110010000001100111
0110111101100100

Posted by: Anonymous at May 4, 2007 4:32 PM


and there's an air gap

Posted by: f at May 4, 2007 4:54 PM


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011001100111010101100011
011010110111001100111111
001000000010000001001110
011011110111011100100000
011101000110100001100001
011101000010011101110011
001000000110000100100000
011000110110100001110101
011100100110001101101000
001000000100100101100100
001000000110001101101111
011011100111001101101001
011001000110010101110010
001000000110011101101111
011010010110111001100111
001000000111010001101111
00100001

Posted by: Not Anonymous at May 4, 2007 5:22 PM


Muslim Scholar No. 1: Allah be praised, I've invented the zero.
Muslim Scholar No. 2: What's that?
Muslim Scholar No. 1: Nothing.
- from "Why Man Creates" (1969)

Posted by: Alan at May 4, 2007 6:49 PM


Damn you Bruce, you've addicted me to one more thing!

Thank god xkcd only produces one cartoon a day.

Posted by: UNTER at May 4, 2007 6:51 PM


You read xkcd? I love you.

I mean more than I already do.

Posted by: bbctol at May 4, 2007 7:13 PM


xkcd comics are released on MWF at midnight Eastern Time.

Posted by: Anonymous at May 4, 2007 8:52 PM


Here's another one which even mentions mr. Schneier:
http://xkcd.com/c177.html

Posted by: Martin at May 5, 2007 1:39 AM


Earlier posts:

Anonymous

"01101111 111 o
01101000 104 h
00100000 32
01101101 109 m
01111001 121 y
00100000 32
01100110 102 f
01110101 117 u
01100011 99 c
01101011 107 k
01101001 105 i
01101110 110 n
01100111 103 g
00100000 32
01100111 103 g
01101111 111 o
01100100 100 d"

Not Anonymous

"01011001 89 Y
01101111 111 o
01110101 117 u
01110010 114 r
00100000 32
01100111 103 g
01101111 111 o
01100100 100 d
00100000 32
01100110 102 f
01110101 117 u
01100011 99 c
01101011 107 k
01110011 115 s
00111111 63 ?
00100000 32
00100000 32
01001110 78 N
01101111 111 o
01110111 119 w
00100000 32
01110100 116 t
01101000 104 h
01100001 97 a
01110100 116 t
00100111 39 '
01110011 115 s
00100000 32
01100001 97 a
00100000 32
01100011 99 c
01101000 104 h
01110101 117 u
01110010 114 r
01100011 99 c
01101000 104 h
00100000 32
01001001 73 I
01100100 100 d
00100000 32
01100011 99 c
01101111 111 o
01101110 110 n
01110011 115 s
01101001 105 i
01100100 100 d
01100101 101 e
01110010 114 r
00100000 32
01100111 103 g
01101111 111 o
01101001 105 i
01101110 110 n
01100111 103 g
00100000 32
01110100 116 t
01101111 111 o
00100001 33 !"

Please will you clean up your language and consider those of us who are reading the blog with a hangover next time you use ASCII. Thanks.

Posted by: Across the Pond at May 5, 2007 7:31 AM


@Not Anonymous (assuming Across the Pond is correct).

Try the first church of Zeus. Not only is he quite active, he will simply go after whatever is prettiest in view (without regard for sex, species, or even whether animal, vegetable, or mineral).

wumpus

Posted by: wumpus at May 5, 2007 8:43 AM


01101100 01101111 01101100

Posted by: vare2 at May 5, 2007 12:35 PM


I think it would have been funnier if the code-talker was the only cryptography involved.

Everyone's a critic. (Or is it just me?)

Posted by: Bill P. Godfrey at May 6, 2007 7:06 PM


11 111 010 000 0 1010 111 100 0 00 000 001 10 1000 010 0 01 101 01 1000 0100 0 1010 010 1011 0110 1 111 110 010 01 0110 0000 1011

Posted by: Tim at May 8, 2007 9:55 AM


For those who appreciate xkcd, you'll also like indexed - indexed.blogspot.com.

Posted by: Ian Mason at May 8, 2007 4:34 PM


As far as I can make out, the last posts said:
vare2: lol
Tim: úðB5R¶û
And the first byte in the original is a capital W. (assuming a'lai'h = 0)
The second byte, if padded on the left with a 0, (screw utf8) is a capital Y.

01011000 01001011 01000011 01000100 00100000 01101001 01110011 00100000 01100001 01110111 01100101 01110011 01101111 01101101 01100101 00100001

Posted by: Something at September 3, 2007 6:26 AM


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