Comic Discussion > QUESTIONABLE CONTENT
WCDT Strips 3376 - 3380 (19th to 23rd December 2016)
mattcoz:
Ha, encryption jokes.
Nepiophage:
--- Quote from: Morituri on 22 Dec 2016, 10:10 ---Alice is the name assigned to the actor who initiates the protocol, and Bob is the name assigned to the actor who receives the first protocol message (the one sent by Alice).
'Eve' is the eavesdropper who tries to penetrate private communications.
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Yes, but see it from Eve's point of view
Method of Madness:
Oh! Now I actually get that comic! Thanks!
Storel:
--- Quote from: Is it cold in here? on 22 Dec 2016, 08:24 ---If Station can decrypt something without knowing the key then so can the NSA and anybody who can rent a botnet. Nobody's going to use an algorithm that vulnerable for anything they care about.
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Not only is Station one of the most powerful AIs around, but his employer is a very brilliant man who is on the cutting edge of many areas of research. If anyone is likely to be well beyond "current technology" as Bubbles knows it, he's the one. (At least, I'm pretty sure true invisibility [as opposed to the radar invisibility commonly known as "stealth"] is not "current technology" as far as anyone else knows.)
In particular, I would not be surprised if Hannerdad has a working (if still experimental) quantum computer, which have the potential to make all our current encryption methods obsolete by massively parallel-processing all the calculations that take us so long by current methods. If he does, "two million years" might very well be reduced to "within our lifetime" or better.
Still, I agree that this would be a deus ex machina solution that would not give Bubbles as much character growth as having to recognize that she's never getting the memories back. Unless, perhaps, she acknowledges that fact, does what is necessary to take down Corpse Witch, hears CW telling her "That key is history now!", deals with the melancholy mood that results... and then we get the Hannerdad surprise that she may get the memories back after all, even if it does take more than ten years.
--- Quote from: Is it cold in here? on 22 Dec 2016, 08:24 ---The skills required here are Susan Calvin's. Station might be very good at that.
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Ah, excellent thought! After all the time he spent helping Hannelore heal her mind, Station is probably a better psychologist than anyone short of Susan Calvin. But will he be willing to help "a pariah among AIs"? Once he hears her story... maybe!
Method of Madness:
Well, so much for Station. And apparently Bembo is back next week.
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