Cryptography experts have proven long ago that ROT-13 is weak against simple brute-force attack. But it turns out that there is also a little-known security hole in ROT-26, which allows a sophisticated eavesdropper to read the message WITHOUT EVEN KNOWING THE PASSWORD.
Cryptography experts suggest, for robust security, the use of at least ROT-39 encoding should be encouraged. This takes a minimum number of log_2[2^39] tries to decode by brute force.
Some experts have suggested that ROT-39 shares the same security hole as ROT-13, but I don't believe I've seen that result confirmed in peer-reviewed literature.
Wow, I had never heard about the security hole in ROT-26.
Personally, I think I'll skip ROT-39 and go straight to the state-of-the-art ROT-52, if for no other reason because the attackers are still trying to break ROT-39!
You can preserve the existing encryption engine by simply using more rounds. The 2-round version has been broken, so cryptographers recommend using the full 16 rounds, as is done in other encryption systems.
The Adams family's lawyers are sending the takedown notice now... also, reading a slashdot story is now a felony, since the content is cryptographically protected by slashdot's patented Rot-13 DRM technology.
The Adams family's lawyers are sending the takedown notice now... also, reading a slashdot story is now a felony, since the content is cryptographically protected by slashdot's patented Rot-13 DRM technology.
I think it's brilliant parody. Reminds me of a typical news website from the turn of the century. (This century, not the last one.) First, it was free. Then, it was free but "for your convenience" you had to create an account to participate. Later, it was paywalled "for your additional enjoyment". Extra points for saying "the paywall is so we don't have to put ads on the page" and then later, they put ads up anyway.
That was my first reaction on seeing this. I thought I'd have a look to see what April Fool jokes are on Slashdot, saw this and thought how pathetic it was.
Used to be funnier and well thought out and silly, but now it's just comedy by committee, with all kinds of notes from the network executives. .
Where's the pink pages? Where's the OMG ponies? Where's the cuteness of fvcking with the CSS and some actual intelligence behind an April Fool's day joke? :>(
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It's kind of like letting the pointy-haired bosses write a comedy script by committee, zat's what you get with the new/., eh?
April Fools on Slashdot is always lame because it's overdone and *every* story is part of it. There's real news today and it's just going to be ignored (Bitcoin just made $100 for example). It's a shame because if Slashdot raised its aim just a little, it could be back to its old glory. Instead, it is happy to ride the inertia into the ground.
What about people who come here to say people come here to say "April 1st". Is that double redundant that? Wait, now I'm triple redundant. Forget it if you reply to me.
I really like most on the april fool stuff on/. The OMG Ponies was awesome. But this is just stupid and annoying. I mean if the text rendered when you click through that would be on thing, but to click click click that is just, well, silly.
Oh man, I always hated April fools day on slashdot, because all frontpage articles would be "jokes". It became even worse when slashdot started lagging all the other aggregators in speed. So, today they found a way to even top that with this stupid rot13 shit.
Is today the day slashdot jumped the shark? Probably not, because i see that this article only got around 160 comments. That used to be different five or ten years ago.
Slashdot is dead. The founders knew when to leave, but it is a pity the current owne
Now the April Fool's jokes on/. are just tired and worn out. There are days why I wonder why I still come here. I guess old habits die hard. Can we not do this shit next year guys?
Yes and I think this will put slashdot back at the forefront of securely readable (well, after some conversion) news sites. Although soon we will see an arms race between bookmarklets [wikipedia.org] for decoding and increasingly complex encoding schemes. XOR $ff, anyone?
... is 'super members' of the community that have proven their knowledge, there is too much bullshit getting modded insightful when it is outright incorrect. I'd like to see slashdot select logged in moderators get the ability to mark false insightful posts as 'false/incorrect' and turn that posters post a different color.
The amount of disinformation from either youth, the uninformed, trolls, or paid hacks to disrupt intelligent discussion on the internet is something I've grown increasingly weary of. It seems increasingly difficult to have intelligent discussions online. There are people who DO KNOW and understand the world at a higher level then most posters on slashdot and these people could help guide discussions when these forces of stupid / distortion appear.
Meta-moderating isn't enough since it is unreliable, especially dealing with youth cohorts (i.e. teens have more free time then adults). You see this especially on politically based posts. Meta-moderating relies on whoever has the energy/time to meta-moderate. There is no guarantee informed people exist in sufficient enough numbers to counter the uninformed because of simple laws of the universe - i.e. the more complex and nuanced you need to be to judge something, the rarer you are in a given population
How about people with super high karma can give an "expert point" every other day to posts with essential insights about certain topics. People can then weight posts from people based on the number of points they have received. Maybe choose experts in their field at the beginning to meta-moderate the assigned points.
I usually have a pretty decent sense of humor. However this ROT13 joke, is not funny and shows no creativity. For a website that USED to be about news nerds/ stuff that matters, this is a new low. You are forcing your target audience to do more work, which may temporarily drive up ad clicks, but in the long run you will loose your base and the site will continue to decline.
Slashdot really doesn't know how to monetize their assets. If they had any common sense the "decoder" would require a "free download" and bundle spyware/adware/malware/shitware.
Closing my browser, because I don't want to deal with the lame April Fool's jokes.
I finally started reading/. again after being away for a year, and the quality really has gone downhill... I'll probably be back tomorrow, but we'll see how long it lasts.
Yeah this sucks. I'm probably done with slashdot. I think it is enough to require login to contribute or post is crap. I have slashdot in one of my tabs and take a quick scan at the articles,. I created an account, but I still can't just glance at them. Slashdot advertisers,maybe you should tell them that this idea is shit-tastic.
Great, so now my RSS feed is going to be broken for the rest of the day? I like April Fools' as much as the next guy, but not when it effectively breaks the whole site for the day.
My biggest gripe as well. All the feeds on my phone through my RSS reader are worthless.
I purposely have them update (within the allotted interval) so that I don't have to constantly use the web.
I certainly hope this is just an April Fool's gag. As it is, I won't bother reading anything on Slashdot today due to the hassle. Way to drive away readers!
You've succeeded in causing me to avoid slashdot for an entire day. I'm all for april fools' jokes, but I'll be damn if I'll click an extra link to read a story.
This might actually be useful for a day if it encouraged people to create accounts but why am I still seeing rot13 after I log in? I don't mind logging in but I don't like to have to click on every article to read the summary even after I do log in.
Instead of having many stoopid ones, what they should do is have one extremely clever one. That would be funny. But then that would require effort and preparation. Not copy and paste.
Also I see more and more companies doing the Aprils Fools day so they can show how 'real' they are and not at all a serious company. However they are still aware that they do it and are so afraid of their image that they make it extremely obvious and it becomes just another marketing trick.
Seems like a perfect candidate for a simple one-line APL ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/APL_(programming_language) [wikipedia.org] ) function. This should be something like {/~{\}, but my keyboard doesn't have the required keys to enter any of the characters needed. Can anyone help?
Ok, I've managed to work out a truly marvelous 7-character conversion in APL, but the margin is too small to contain it.
svefg cbfg (Score:5, Funny)
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Second post (Score:3, Funny)
The joke is on Slashdot, I for one have been using ROT26 for several years already.
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I prefer ROT104, myself. It disorients the text more than ROT26, making it easier to handle.
Warning! Security hole in ROT-13 and ROT-26! (Score:5, Insightful)
Cryptography experts have proven long ago that ROT-13 is weak against simple brute-force attack. But it turns out that there is also a little-known security hole in ROT-26, which allows a sophisticated eavesdropper to read the message WITHOUT EVEN KNOWING THE PASSWORD.
Cryptography experts suggest, for robust security, the use of at least ROT-39 encoding should be encouraged. This takes a minimum number of log_2[2^39] tries to decode by brute force.
Some experts have suggested that ROT-39 shares the same security hole as ROT-13, but I don't believe I've seen that result confirmed in peer-reviewed literature.
Re:Warning! Security hole in ROT-13 and ROT-26! (Score:5, Funny)
Wow, I had never heard about the security hole in ROT-26.
Personally, I think I'll skip ROT-39 and go straight to the state-of-the-art ROT-52, if for no other reason because the attackers are still trying to break ROT-39!
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Wow, I had never heard about the security hole in ROT-26.
It's not a bug, it's a feature!
Simpler solution (Score:2)
You can preserve the existing encryption engine by simply using more rounds. The 2-round version has been broken, so cryptographers recommend using the full 16 rounds, as is done in other encryption systems.
Re:Second post (Score:5, Funny)
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Re:Second post (Score:4, Funny)
oh timothy... (Score:5, Funny)
The only person in the world that is so bad that his NORMAL writing looks like Rot13...
He's in trouble now... (Score:3)
Don't panic. You don't have to do anything at all
The Adams family's lawyers are sending the takedown notice now... also, reading a slashdot story is now a felony, since the content is cryptographically protected by slashdot's patented Rot-13 DRM technology.
Gotta love them lawyers!
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The Adams family's lawyers are sending the takedown notice now... also, reading a slashdot story is now a felony, since the content is cryptographically protected by slashdot's patented Rot-13 DRM technology.
What do Gomez and Morticia have to do with it?
In the menatime...
or fher gb qevax lbhe binygvar!
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Gomez and Morticia spelled their's with two Ds. (Addams). Maybe he refers to those of the John Q. line?
Not sure if april fools'... (Score:2, Insightful)
Re:Not sure if april fools'... (Score:5, Funny)
Did you figure that out all by yourself or did somebody help you?
79, 194, 38, 1701, 89, 76, 11, 83, 1629, 48, 94, 6 (Score:2)
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I think it's brilliant parody. Reminds me of a typical news website from the turn of the century. (This century, not the last one.) First, it was free. Then, it was free but "for your convenience" you had to create an account to participate. Later, it was paywalled "for your additional enjoyment". Extra points for saying "the paywall is so we don't have to put ads on the page" and then later, they put ads up anyway.
Wow (Score:5, Insightful)
Lame. This is pretty lame even by Slashdot standards.
Re:Wow (Score:5, Insightful)
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Luckily you posted here to save everybody else from the cleverness of the joke.
comedy by committee = non-comedy (Score:5, Insightful)
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Where's the pink pages? Where's the OMG ponies? Where's the cuteness of fvcking with the CSS and some actual intelligence behind an April Fool's day joke?
:>(
. It's kind of like letting the pointy-haired bosses write a comedy script by committee, zat's what you get with the new
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April Fools on Slashdot is always lame because it's overdone and *every* story is part of it. There's real news today and it's just going to be ignored (Bitcoin just made $100 for example). It's a shame because if Slashdot raised its aim just a little, it could be back to its old glory. Instead, it is happy to ride the inertia into the ground.
Re:Wow (Score:5, Insightful)
What? You were expecting ponies?
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What? You were expecting ponies?
Nobody expected the ponies.
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Lame. This is pretty lame even by Slashdot standards.
Not as lame as posting here just to let everybody how you weren't fooled by it (like, duh!)
(and not posting in ROT13 makes your post double-lame...)
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The comments on this 'article' are far funnier than the "explanation of our April Fool's joke" summary. Ohgawd.
Just going to come right out and say it... (Score:5, Funny)
...someone at slashdot has lost their mind.
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um.
April 1st.
ok, IHBT. I think.
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Your hypothesis erroneously presumes that minds were initially present.
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lbh zhfg oe arj urer
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...someone at slashdot has lost their mind.
-1 redundant
$10,000 Challenge (Score:2)
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No, but it would be a violation of the DMCA.
I Got a Better Idea (Score:5, Interesting)
How about letting logged in users filter out all april fools jokes?
Re:I Got a Better Idea (Score:4)
How about letting logged in users filter out all april fools jokes?
'Jokes' implies funny. This is just lame trolling.
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That would give a blank page. Cause Slashdot is that unfunny guy who thinks he's funny and does a joke to death.
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More BS (Score:5, Insightful)
More April 1 bullshit. Can't they at least come up with one thing that is actually funny?
Or just rename it April 1 troll day and be done with it.
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Their best one was OMG PONIES, but they can't do that one ironically anymore because people actually like ponies now.
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Their best one was OMG PONIES, but they can't do that one ironically anymore because people actually like ponies now.
Not in Tehran they don't.
http://bronies.meetup.com/members/ir/tehran/ [meetup.com]
Granted they probably have to meet in secret if they don't want to end up with their heads on pikes in the name of most merciful Allah.
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funny, cute, or just makes you think. (Score:2)
I don't care. I look forward to it each April 1st. I certainly don't begrudge them not being funny to all people. April 1st is like National Nerd Day.
Its fun to be a geek, humor is what you make of it, my suggestion, take a step back and enjoy the day.
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Oh man, I always hated April fools day on slashdot, because all frontpage articles would be "jokes". It became even worse when slashdot started lagging all the other aggregators in speed. So, today they found a way to even top that with this stupid rot13 shit.
Is today the day slashdot jumped the shark? Probably not, because i see that this article only got around 160 comments. That used to be different five or ten years ago.
Slashdot is dead. The founders knew when to leave, but it is a pity the current owne
Even better! (Score:3, Funny)
this was funny 10 years ago (Score:2, Insightful)
Now the April Fool's jokes on /. are just tired and worn out. There are days why I wonder why I still come here. I guess old habits die hard. Can we not do this shit next year guys?
Re: this was funny 10 years ago (Score:2)
There are two inviolable traditions on Slashdot: April Fools' articles, and incessant whining about them.
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...and incessant whining about them.
Represented in a Venn diagram, everything and whining would be two entirely overlapping circles. This is the way of our people.
Oehpr Fpuarvre snpg (Score:4, Insightful)
Vs lbh nfxrq Oehpr Fpuarvre gb qrpelcg guvf, ur'q pehfu lbhe fxhyy jvgu uvf ynhtu.
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Vs lbh nfxrq Oehpr Fpuarvre gb qrpelcg guvf, ur'q pehfu lbhe fxhyy jvgu uvf ynhtu.
I, for one, use ROT26 to protect my comments. Everybody knows that it offers the level of security that slashdot really needs.
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Nyfb, V pna xvyy lbh jvgu zl oenva.
This is great! (Score:2)
I appreciate this extra security since the Cisco "type 7" encryption was broken earlier this year.
And as a long-time Usenet reader, I can basically de-crypt ROT13 in my sleep.
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Yes and I think this will put slashdot back at the forefront of securely readable (well, after some conversion) news sites.
Although soon we will see an arms race between bookmarklets [wikipedia.org] for decoding and increasingly complex encoding schemes. XOR $ff, anyone?
What I'd really like to see... (Score:3, Funny)
... is 'super members' of the community that have proven their knowledge, there is too much bullshit getting modded insightful when it is outright incorrect. I'd like to see slashdot select logged in moderators get the ability to mark false insightful posts as 'false/incorrect' and turn that posters post a different color.
The amount of disinformation from either youth, the uninformed, trolls, or paid hacks to disrupt intelligent discussion on the internet is something I've grown increasingly weary of. It seems increasingly difficult to have intelligent discussions online. There are people who DO KNOW and understand the world at a higher level then most posters on slashdot and these people could help guide discussions when these forces of stupid / distortion appear.
http://consciouslifenews.com/paid-internet-shill-shadowy-groups-manipulate-internet-opinion-debate/1147073/ [consciouslifenews.com]
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It's called "meta-moderating", and we already have it. I presume from your rant that you make use of this frequently?
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Meta-moderating isn't enough since it is unreliable, especially dealing with youth cohorts (i.e. teens have more free time then adults). You see this especially on politically based posts. Meta-moderating relies on whoever has the energy/time to meta-moderate. There is no guarantee informed people exist in sufficient enough numbers to counter the uninformed because of simple laws of the universe - i.e. the more complex and nuanced you need to be to judge something, the rarer you are in a given population
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How about people with super high karma can give an "expert point" every other day to posts with essential insights about certain topics. People can then weight posts from people based on the number of points they have received. Maybe choose experts in their field at the beginning to meta-moderate the assigned points.
My favorite day of the year (Score:2)
I love reading the impotent rage in the comments. Keep whining; the April 1st articles will just keep rolling in.
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And the advertising revenue will just keep rolling out...
If I was a CS grad.. (Score:2)
If I was a CS grad.. I'd make an app that blocks Slashdot for me each April 1st....
Yes I'm getting old.
Amazing (Score:2)
btwrst (Score:2)
H cmd n btwrst pr l mñn tmrpn crc d m cs.
Bring it on!!!! (Score:5, Funny)
As said last time... (Score:2)
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=2064678&cid=35688196 [slashdot.org]
Jul fhpu n cbbe pubvpr bs rapelcgvba? (Score:2)
Jul jnf fhpu n cbbe rapelcgvba nytbevguz pubfra? Rirelbar xabjf gevcyr-ebg13 vf orggre.
oh thank fuck for that! (Score:2)
I thought I'd forgotten how to read!
Bastards.
I wnat my theme back! (Score:2)
Way to piss off your customers (Score:2)
This is a good day (Score:2)
to avoid Slashdot.
(rot13-region (region-beginning) (region-end)) (Score:2)
Emacs. Can your editor do that?
(Sorry, couldn't resist.)
FREE DOWNLOAD Slashdot Decoder (Score:2)
Slashdot really doesn't know how to monetize their assets. If they had any common sense the "decoder" would require a "free download" and bundle spyware/adware/malware/shitware.
-insert SEO blogspam here-
See you tomorrow, folks! (Score:2)
This sucks (Score:2)
I hope ... (Score:2)
Bookmarklet decrypter (Score:2)
I use bookmarklets [squarefree.com] to handle rot-13 encoding when I find it. Highlight, click bookmark, read as plain text. Simple.
Enjoy!
RSS broken (Score:5, Insightful)
Great, so now my RSS feed is going to be broken for the rest of the day? I like April Fools' as much as the next guy, but not when it effectively breaks the whole site for the day.
Re:RSS broken (Score:5, Informative)
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ponies! (Score:2)
Why isn't the logo changed? (Score:3)
Ugh (Score:2)
Congratulations! (Score:2)
Hohagh cnpxntr "ofqtnzrf" (Score:2)
this might actually be useful for a day if it (Score:3)
This might actually be useful for a day if it encouraged people to
create accounts but why am I still seeing rot13 after I log in?
I don't mind logging in but I don't like to have to click on every
article to read the summary even after I do log in.
Re:date (Score:5, Insightful)
Wait, what day is it?
April troll's day. I miss the long dead tradition of April fools day.
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Instead of having many stoopid ones, what they should do is have one extremely clever one. That would be funny. But then that would require effort and preparation. Not copy and paste.
Also I see more and more companies doing the Aprils Fools day so they can show how 'real' they are and not at all a serious company. However they are still aware that they do it and are so afraid of their image that they make it extremely obvious and it becomes just another marketing trick.
So please stop doing that.
What I did a
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Where it would be quicker to write a perl script to do ROT13 translation, than to read the editors' description of what the site did with it.
Assuming it's not an April 1 joke, and it might be (an unusually ponderous one at that).
I can't resist an excuse to do this in tr.
tr 'a-z' 'n-za-m' HERE
Put your message here
HERE
Trivial I know. I'll bet half to slashdot could not resist immediately coding ROT-13 in their favorite language.
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tr 'a-z' 'n-za-m' HERE
And slashdot mashes up the double less thans.
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Where it would be quicker to write a perl script to do ROT13 translation, than to read the editors' description of what the site did with it.
Assuming it's not an April 1 joke, and it might be (an unusually ponderous one at that).
You have a problem: Rot13 translation. You write a perl script. Now you have two problems.
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Seems like a perfect candidate for a simple one-line APL ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/APL_(programming_language) [wikipedia.org] ) function. This should be something like {/~{\}, but my keyboard doesn't have the required keys to enter any of the characters needed. Can anyone help?
Ok, I've managed to work out a truly marvelous 7-character conversion in APL, but the margin is too small to contain it.
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Doesn't matter, /. doesn't support Unicode.
Bravo, you just ruined next year's April fools joke.
"A new benefit for readers: Unicode support in comments. MÃtley Crüe impressed!"
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if you run firefox then you can use leetkey to do all sorts of fun things with/to your text
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I hate Anonymous Coward on Slashdot...
What used to be some witty humor and unusual perspectives has become noise and spamming and just posting too fast everywhere.
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Triple-rot13 FTW!
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Yup. Same here. I think there's a bunch of retards running this site now.