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Cipher – A Tribute To OldTrout

7th February 2022 Doc Mike Finnley 3469 Comments

Introduction Cipher – meaning zero (0), nothing or an empty set. Decipher – to make something out of that seemingly meaningless nothing. Caroline or ‘Old Trout’ (as we affectionately remember her) was a brilliant mathematician. [more…]

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Of Scherbius, Balme, Lee, Long, Pearce, Dolley, Roe, Wileman, Hargreaves, Trotter, Fasson, Grazier, & Brown….

16th June 2021 Going Postal 2350 Comments

It is indeed strange that the names of the people listed in the article title should remain so completely unknown today. Great innovators of the Weimar Republic during the 1920s, people like Gropius in architecture, [more…]

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Enigma deception

9th June 2021 Going Postal 2159 Comments

A typical three wheeled Enigma with inspection cover open and showing the three wheels in position. When the Second World War began, three wheels became five. There is a scene in the film The Imitation [more…]

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The Internet is Simple, Part Four

13th September 2017 El Cnutador 0 Comments

“File:Stickmen Free Speech Oppression.svg” by JasonCarswell is licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0 You will probably want to read Part One, Part Two and Part Three of this series before continuing… The UK, of course, ever [more…]

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The Internet is Simple, Part Three

30th August 2017 El Cnutador 0 Comments

“File:PGP message.svg” by Cqdx is licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 You will probably want to read Part One and Part Two of this series before continuing… We’ve talked about asymmetric and symmetric encryption keys here [more…]

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The Internet is Simple, Part Two

23rd August 2017 El Cnutador 2 Comments

“File:Route Aggrgation example (1)-en.svg” by Michel Bakni is licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0 You will probably want to read Part One of this series before continuing… Routers keep this mapping in a list for future [more…]

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The Internet is Simple, Part One

16th August 2017 El Cnutador 0 Comments

“TACC brain” by Ioannis N. Athanasiadis is licensed under CC BY 2.0 If a packet hits a pocket on a socket on a port, And the bus is interrupted as a very last resort, And [more…]

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