CHECK SUM: Speculations on Information Decoding IMAGE: Lex: At times I think art can express philosophy more eloquently than words. Lis: I notice the Chinese characters for 'state','river' and 'plum.' Any reason for that? Linda: We could invent reasons, but I don't think the author needed any exegesis. Perhaps he believed things flowed well-enough without any human 'reasons.' Often what we call 'reasons' are essentially afterthoughts: the actual mechanics of life are invisible. Ron: (frowning) That sounds like a formula for fostering wimpy brains. Lex: Don't worry, it took three billion years to get this far and life is far from wimpy. ===================================================================================== from _Last Poems: Lost Poems_ by T Newfields SUMMARY: Some complementary position-dependent thoughts about deciphering data. KEYWORDS: information leakage, unrealistic side-channel analyses, image parities, invalid checksums Author: T Newfields [Nitta Hirou / Huáng Yuèwǔ] (b. 1955 - ) Begun: 2001 in Nagoya, Japan ✠ Finished: 2022 in Yokohama, Japan Creative Commons License: Attribution. {{CC-BY-4.0}} < LAST https://www.tnewfields.info/LastPoems/sun.htm TOC https://www.tnewfields.info/LastPoems/index.html NEXT > https://www.tnewfields.info/LastPoems/chakrasamvara.htm