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Swamp Thing reacted to PeroK's post in the thread I Physicists disagree wildly on what quantum mechanics says about real… with
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Not necessarily. SD only determines the necessary correlations to make it look like QM is right. There are no macroscopic... -
Swamp Thing replied to the thread I Physicists disagree wildly on what quantum mechanics says about real….In superdeterminism, it's already fixed what everyone is going to believe, right?
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Swamp Thing reacted to fresh_42's post in the thread A very naive encryption scheme : How would an expert crack it? with
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The standard approach to generating encryption schemes is to use trapdoor functions: easy to encode, difficult to decode without... -
Swamp Thing reacted to Nugatory's post in the thread A very naive encryption scheme : How would an expert crack it? with Informative.
If only one K is number used for multiple messages, you just have a Caesar cipher, and as @Fresh42 points out, these are vulnerable to...
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Swamp Thing replied to the thread A very naive encryption scheme : How would an expert crack it?.If the K number is pre-shared (and not embedded in the message), I suppose it would meet this criterion? And in that case, I assume a...
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Swamp Thing reacted to Nugatory's post in the thread A very naive encryption scheme : How would an expert crack it? with Like.
Perhaps not, but that’s the wrong question. Cyphers must be designed on the assumption that an attacker knows everything except the...
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Swamp Thing posted the thread A very naive encryption scheme : How would an expert crack it? in Programming and Computer Science.Alice generates a random series of digits that define a key 0 < K < 1, using a physics based, nearly perfect random generator. She then...
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Swamp Thing replied to the thread Weird near-field phenomenon I get in my EM simulation.Could it be something analogous to the "superliminal scissors" thing where the point of intersection moves faster than light? Say we...
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Swamp Thing replied to the thread I "Magic" regulating functions for divergent series.It's a while since I posted those questions, and it took me a minute to even understand Q1. Which could mean I haven't worded it very...
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Swamp Thing reacted to TensorCalculus's post in the thread I "Magic" regulating functions for divergent series with Like.
No Numberphile went back to ##-\frac{1}{12}## again!? Seriously?! Last time it created such a faff... My very limited maths knowledge...
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That's exactly the meaning: https://www.etymonline.com/search?q=preposterous
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Swamp Thing replied to the thread Today I Learned.TIL how an aha moment yielded a key insight into the analogy between electrical and mechanical systems, leading to a secret device that...
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The story of the J-Damper, a mysterious device at the heart of the biggest spy scandal in Formula 1 racing history.
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Swamp Thing replied to the thread Collection of Lame Jokes.Celtic Local Area Network?