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WCDT Strips 3386 - 3390 (2nd - 6th January 2017)
Kugai:
This is going to prove interesting.
Is it cold in here?:
--- Quote from: Mad Cat on 02 Jan 2017, 21:10 ---I always knew Hanners was capable of physical affection. It just required a synthetic recipient to be expressed.
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She managed to hug Marten when she got the CoD job.
Timemaster:
--- Quote from: Squiddlywinx on 02 Jan 2017, 20:07 ---Floof.
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Jay, Hanners! :laugh:
But she seems to have overcome peak floofy, I think she cut her golden wool in the back since weīve seen her last. At least since this strip:
http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=3247
Itīs nice to see that Jeph is taking Hanners and Station into account to deal with Bubbles problem. Once again he seems to listen to the forum. Or maybe itīs simply the most logical course of action for Faye.
But I donīt think Station will take a bigger part in solving this storyline, because this would be a classical deus ex machina and it would lessen the efforts of our main protagonists, especially Fayeīs. But nonetheless it would be nice to see him again. The space station arc is still my favourite Hanners story. And itīs got spathe ham. :-D
TM
Morituri:
Most beautiful words anyone ever heard, if they want to break encryption. "A variant of".
Meaning somebody did their own crypto implementation, meaning unless they are a specialist they almost certainly got it wrong.
You can encrypt something as securely as you want and then exit a routine without clearing a sensitive variable and the key will be stashed right there next to it. Or use a bad source of randomness and get an easily predictable key. Or blow the details of an exchange protocol and produce a "nonce" that gives away the state of the random number generator right before the key is produced. Or fail to clear a buffer and leave large chunks of the plaintext lying around. Or use the same key twice for a stream cipher. Or blow the implementation of CBC mode and make it PBC. (XORing the encrypted blocks with the plaintext). Or any of a thousand other things.
The minute a security guy hears that someone implemented their own crypto, he knows that 99 times out of 100, there'll be a way to break it. Crypto is damned hard, the programming languages aren't made to support semantics where it's important what the system *doesn't* do, and almost nobody except specialists ever gets an actual implementation secure.
BenRG:
Poor Bubbles! Based on panel 4, she's still not used to spontaneous acts of affection and reassurance, is she? Was it the hug or was it Hannelore calling her 'friend'? Something tells me that Bubbles still isn't entirely used to either!
"I am glad I am not equipped with tear ducts." <-- This is a group hug trigger phrase as well as for Hannelore and Faye to lose control of the units with which they are equipped.
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