Schneier on Security

A blog covering security and security technology.

« Fraud Due to a Credit Card Breach | Main | Friday Squid Blogging: Video of Vampire Squid »

March 21, 2008

MC Frontalot Raps About Encryption

Music. Lyrics.

Posted on March 21, 2008 at 01:23 PM • 17 Comments • View Blog Reactions

To receive these entries once a month by e-mail, sign up for the Crypto-Gram Newsletter.

Comments

My God. I think Frontalot just sold me one of his albums.

Posted by: Evan at March 21, 2008 01:54 PM

If nerdcore trips your trigger, check out Jonathan Coulton too, while not super techincal, he hits on Sci-fi topics (robots, genetic engineering) and a ton of other awesome geeky topics :)

Posted by: Anonymous at March 21, 2008 02:16 PM

"You can’t hide secrets from the future with math."

I wondered where that line came from! Nice!

Posted by: Skorj at March 21, 2008 02:25 PM

"You can't hide secrets from the future with math" is going into my quote file.

Posted by: Petréa Mitchell at March 21, 2008 02:26 PM

Another nerdcore artist to listen to is M.C. Hawking. Incredibly funny stuff. Imagine Stephen Hawking as a hardcore rapper. http://www.mchawking.com/

Posted by: alan at March 21, 2008 02:55 PM

This guy is good!

Posted by: andyinsdca at March 21, 2008 03:28 PM

A couple more crypto-related songs can be found at http://www.philzimmermann.com/EN/audiovideo/index.html

Posted by: alan at March 21, 2008 03:31 PM

LOL that was funny ... how can you call yourself MC Frontalot? A+ ROFL

Posted by: Anonymous Coward at March 21, 2008 03:53 PM

There's a cracking video of one of his other tracks about 'Zork' called 'It's Pitch Dark' on youtube.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4nigRT2KmCE

Posted by: LRayZor at March 21, 2008 04:08 PM

Check out "Alice and Bob" from the original CS gangsta rapper, MCPlus+. He references Bruce and Twofish in the lyrics, and has a shout-ou to Bruce in another one of his tracks. http://www.mcplusplus.com/

Posted by: nerdcore at March 21, 2008 04:17 PM

Not too shabby :)

Posted by: FooDooHackedYou at March 21, 2008 05:51 PM

That be bitchin', homies. Have you checked out MC Hawking's opus? Take a look at:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=89jt7zJzkNQ
Very funny! Not strictly security related...

Posted by: nerdboy at March 21, 2008 06:08 PM

I rap about crap!http://www.pcdecrapifier.com/home

Posted by: HAL at March 22, 2008 12:27 PM

Sh#t is whack. White people should stay away from rap, its almost painful listening to this "nerdcore" rap crap, almost as painfull as some so called "real rap".

"You can’t hide secrets from the future with math."

WHACK!!!

Posted by: LC at March 23, 2008 12:27 AM

For those of you interested in nerdcore, two artists I don't see mentioned yet that I can recommend are MC Router and MCPlus+ (whom Bruce has blogged about in the past).

If you're looking for something more mainstream, MC Chris (of ATHF & Cartoon Network fame) also has some good stuff.

Posted by: Michael Cloppert at March 23, 2008 12:34 PM

Nerdcore Compilations available for download. They give you a decent cross section of whats available in nerdcore "scene"
http://www.rhymetorrents.com/disc1/

KILL DASH 9, NO MORE CPU TIME!

Posted by: Justin at March 23, 2008 01:36 PM

Yellow lasers is really funny, too.

Posted by: Rob at March 24, 2008 07:50 AM