Supermurgitroid secret messages
February 3, 2011 9:04 AM Subscribe
Send coded messages to all your friends even if you never made it to the bottom of the cereal box. It decodes too!
They all just say "Drink more ovaltine...." Geeze!
posted by GenjiandProust at 9:27 AM on February 3, 2011 [2 favorites]
posted by GenjiandProust at 9:27 AM on February 3, 2011 [2 favorites]
GUBFR JUB SBETRG UVFGBEL NER QBBZRQ GB ERCRNG VG
posted by DU at 9:28 AM on February 3, 2011 [1 favorite]
posted by DU at 9:28 AM on February 3, 2011 [1 favorite]
True believers know the key. A = A.
posted by Eideteker at 9:38 AM on February 3, 2011 [4 favorites]
posted by Eideteker at 9:38 AM on February 3, 2011 [4 favorites]
It's much more secure than rot13, but it could still be broken with enough raw computation. That's why I have engaged native Navajo speakers to translate all my super-seekrit Facebook postings. Becky will never figure out who has a major crush on her now!
posted by Curious Artificer at 9:38 AM on February 3, 2011 [2 favorites]
posted by Curious Artificer at 9:38 AM on February 3, 2011 [2 favorites]
It's much more secure than rot13
That's why you should always take the time to double-ROT13 encode the plaintext.
posted by CaseyB at 9:57 AM on February 3, 2011 [1 favorite]
That's why you should always take the time to double-ROT13 encode the plaintext.
posted by CaseyB at 9:57 AM on February 3, 2011 [1 favorite]
CaseyB, I encoded the following message to you using double-ROT13 (I'll send you the key via MeMail:
I have a major crush on Becky.
posted by etc. at 10:17 AM on February 3, 2011
I have a major crush on Becky.
posted by etc. at 10:17 AM on February 3, 2011
etc. how did you manage to represent that italic in DROT-13? I didn't think it handled control characters....
posted by casconed at 10:24 AM on February 3, 2011
posted by casconed at 10:24 AM on February 3, 2011
It's much more secure than rot13, but it could still be broken with enough raw computation.
Actually, it's barely more secure than ROT 13, and it's trivial to crack with enough cryptotext. It's a simple monoalphabetic substitution cipher. It has 10 wheel sets, and you set where the wheels are, but once it's set, it's a fixed transposition.
posted by eriko at 10:37 AM on February 3, 2011
Actually, it's barely more secure than ROT 13, and it's trivial to crack with enough cryptotext. It's a simple monoalphabetic substitution cipher. It has 10 wheel sets, and you set where the wheels are, but once it's set, it's a fixed transposition.
posted by eriko at 10:37 AM on February 3, 2011
Taman shud
posted by iotic at 10:56 AM on February 3, 2011 [1 favorite]
posted by iotic at 10:56 AM on February 3, 2011 [1 favorite]
I remember getting one of these wheels thingys in the mail after sending in $5 to a comic strip that would print a code at the end of each strip. The messages were stupid, but I loved having a code wheel and reading books about "spy stuff"/Macguyver tools you could build out of everyday objects.
I miss when newspaper comics did awesome shit like that. On the other hand, webcomics are doing stuff like putting playable videogames into their comics, so it's a fair trade.
posted by yeloson at 11:01 AM on February 3, 2011
I miss when newspaper comics did awesome shit like that. On the other hand, webcomics are doing stuff like putting playable videogames into their comics, so it's a fair trade.
posted by yeloson at 11:01 AM on February 3, 2011
New red white 'n blue Froot Loops comes with a dogwhistle.
posted by jfuller at 12:44 PM on February 3, 2011
posted by jfuller at 12:44 PM on February 3, 2011
Gosh, if only there were some way to send twitter messages that only specific people could see. Didn't there used to be an internet protocol for that? I seem to remember sending messages to friends. As I recall, I could even send more that 143 characters.
posted by Galaxor Nebulon at 1:58 PM on February 4, 2011
posted by Galaxor Nebulon at 1:58 PM on February 4, 2011
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