Codes

Cicada 3301 is a mysterious and enigmatic online puzzle or alternate reality game that gained notoriety for its complexity and anonymity. It first appeared in January 2012 with a series of cryptic puzzles and challenges, often posted on various internet forums and websites.

The puzzles typically involve a combination of cryptography, steganography, computer programming, and knowledge of various disciplines. Solving these challenges often requires a deep understanding of diverse subjects and analytical skills.

A book cipher is a method of encryption and decryption that employs a physical book or text as the key. In this technique, secret messages are concealed by referencing specific words or passages from the book to encode and decode information. To encrypt a message, each word in the plaintext is replaced with a corresponding word or phrase found at a predetermined location within the chosen book.

Origin: Germany

Binary code is a system of representing information or data using only two symbols, typically 0 and 1. It is the basis of all digital systems, including computers. In binary code, each digit is called a bit (short for binary digit) and represents the presence or absence of a particular signal or state.

Thomas J. Beale

The Beale Cipher, also known as the Beale Papers, is a cryptographic mystery that revolves around a supposed hidden treasure buried in the United States. The Beale Cipher is attributed to Thomas J. Beale, who allegedly discovered the treasure in the early 19th century.

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bc, for basic calculator (often referred to as bench calculator), is "an arbitrary-precision calculator language" with syntax similar to the C programming language.

bc is typically used as either a mathematical scripting language or as an interactive mathematical shell. bc. Developer(s)

bc is also a command for DOS. The bc command is an interactive process that provides arbitrary-precision arithmetic. The bc command first reads any input files specified by the File parameter and then reads the standard input.

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adj. 1. Non-interactive. Hackers use this somewhat more loosely than the traditional technical definitions justify; in particular, switches on a normally interactive program that prepare it to receive non-interactive command input are often referred to as 'batch mode' switches. A 'batch file' is a series of instructions written to be handed to an interactive program running in batch mode.

2. Performance of dreary tasks all at one sitting.

Substitution Cipher

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The Language of Machine Instruction

Assembly language, often referred to as Assembly is a low-level programming language that bridges the gap between human-readable code and machine-executable instructions. Its roots can be traced back to the early days of computing when programmers needed a more efficient way to communicate with the hardware of early computers. As hardware technologies evolved, so did Assembly, becoming a foundational language for programming and system development.

- Robert W. Bemer

ASCII (American Standard Code for Information Interchange) is a widely used character encoding standard that represents text in computers and other devices. It was developed in the early 1960s by a committee led by Robert W. Bemer to establish a consistent and universal character set for electronic communication and data interchange.