Re:Square Zero: hide silly messages in decorative borders
by ttyprintk on Thursday December 05, 2024 @11:53PM
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I’ve seen this embedded within geographic paths that form polygons. There are many points along each side of a polygon, arranged so that each segment length is longer (1) or shorter (0) than the one before. Decrypts to two floats, offsets from the first point.
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Re:Square Zero: hide silly messages in decorative borders
by danwilkerson on Friday December 06, 2024 @09:18AM
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Oh, interesting. What was the meaning of the offsets?
Re:Square Zero: hide silly messages in decorative borders
by ttyprintk on Friday December 06, 2024 @03:26PM
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So, you take the Lat and Lon of point[0] and add the offset vector. This locates with precision, like X marks the spot.
We could store an arbitrary path in a database in the clear, and only with a decryption key find a dropped point.