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Cipher – A Tribute To OldTrout

7th February 2022 Doc Mike Finnley 0

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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The Internet is Simple, Part Four

13th September 2017 El Cnutador 0

“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

“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 0

“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

“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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