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September 25, 2009

A Stick Figure Guide to AES

Nice.

Posted on September 25, 2009 at 2:46 PM13 Comments

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My only complaint is that the math, which the comic spends a great deal of time discussing, is far less important than the non-obvious potential attacks and pitfalls in implementation (things like ECB).

Posted by: nick at September 25, 2009 3:01 PM


@nick ... then this isn't really aimed at you.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloom%27s_Taxonomy

In earlier stages of learning, simply keeping track of the parts of the process and how they inter-relate is a key learning goal. The parts you are concerned about are indeed important - but only after the student demonstrates some fundamental understanding of how an encryption protocol would operate in the first place.

Posted by: Chris S at September 25, 2009 3:59 PM


A posting AFTER the Friday Squid? What is this world coming to?

Posted by: B. Real at September 25, 2009 4:03 PM


> A Stick Figure Guide to AES
And here I expected something from XKCD...
Pretty nice, although my head started to hurt towards the end... It is late Friday afternoon after alll. ;)

Posted by: A non E mouse at September 25, 2009 4:13 PM


At least he's holding off on posts about the big arrest and the other "given a fake device" arrests. I have to admire a guy that doesn't jump right on the story of the moment. Thanks.

Posted by: Noble_Seft at September 25, 2009 4:15 PM


Damn, A non E mouse beat me to saying that.

I wonder if Mr. Monroe is reading this right now?

Posted by: eMouse at September 25, 2009 6:41 PM


Love the way it goes through at more and more detailed levels. I could nitpick some things, of course, but basically it's great.

Posted by: Randall at September 25, 2009 7:29 PM


Nice enough, but not nearly as entertaining as the stick figure explanation of AIG.

http://docs.google.com/present/view?...

Posted by: Jim at September 25, 2009 10:17 PM


"A posting AFTER the Friday Squid? What is this world coming to?"

I'm not quite sure what happened either.

Posted by: Bruce Schneier at September 25, 2009 10:26 PM


@ Bruce,

"I'm not quite sure what happened either."

You don't even have the old "Concord flyer" excuse of "you arrived before you left"...

Posted by: Clive Robinson at September 26, 2009 8:52 AM


Sophomoric at best.

Posted by: Durable Ally at September 27, 2009 3:02 AM


It's very good.

Posted by: Nostromo at September 28, 2009 3:45 AM


Stick figures can be expressive. I thought the "little Bobby Tables" xkcd strip was the best introduction to some SQL vulnerabilities I'd seen.

Posted by: David at September 28, 2009 8:38 AM


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