[HN Gopher] Text Encryption Based on Glider in the Game of Life ...
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       Text Encryption Based on Glider in the Game of Life (2016)
        
       Author : Hooke
       Score  : 24 points
       Date   : 2021-01-10 22:25 UTC (23 hours ago)
        
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       | failrate wrote:
       | One interesting thing about certain CA is that they bear a very
       | close equivalence to certain pseudo RNG systems like shift
       | register. E.g. GoL on a constrained grid with the starting state
       | equal to the seed.
        
       | jagged-chisel wrote:
       | My take away is those logic gates. I recently looked into a GoL
       | for a toy project, knowing that it's "Turing complete" in the
       | hopes that it could "run software." I came away a little
       | disappointed that no one has yet created a fully-capable machine
       | to run some kind of code. This gives me new hope...
        
         | fogof wrote:
         | I think this article might have what you're looking for
         | 
         | https://hackaday.com/2020/11/21/a-computer-in-the-game-of-li...
        
       | skulk wrote:
       | Title misled me to expect a novel encryption algorithm inspired
       | by gliders/CAs. It's actually an glider-based implementation of
       | the one-time pad. Having played around in GOL for a significant
       | amount of time, I find it impressive but not very interesting
       | compared to the Tetris implementation[1].
       | 
       | [1]: https://codegolf.stackexchange.com/questions/11880/build-
       | a-w...
        
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