Talk:1323: Protocol

Explain xkcd: It's 'cause you're dumb.
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This is funny. I was really drawn into the conversation due to the names. 108.162.246.117 07:05, 29 January 2014 (UTC)

Me too! And I'm even more drawn to the meta-conversation!!  :) Nealmcb (talk) 13:30, 29 January 2014 (UTC)
But what about me? Alice and Bob get way too much time already.... Carol (whisper) 13:30 29 January 2014 (UTC)

Eve appears in 177: Alice and Bob --JakubNarebski (talk) 08:14, 29 January 2014 (UTC)

Heh. I was immediately reminded of the movie, Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0064100/ I wonder if that movie influenced the encryption names, or vice versa, or mere coincidence?108.162.216.72 12:31, 29 January 2014 (UTC)

I think the explanation looks complete to me. I vote to remove the tag. Jarod997 (talk) 14:04, 29 January 2014 (UTC)

Removed then. There was someone who asked for more Cryptography comic references. I found 14 and have thus made a new category (see link below). Feel free to add more if I have not found them all by searching on Cryptography and Encryption (I have only included those where there were some direct mention of these issues in the commic - or title text) and not just because there was mention of it in the explanation. However, the words does not have to appear in the commic before I included them. i.e. PGP. But also feel free to delete one from the list if I was too quick to include it Kynde (talk) 15:45, 29 January 2014 (UTC)

The description misses a key aspect of the comic. The conversation follows the pattern of a message being sent from Cueball to the Computer Scientist, with the CS sending an acknowledgement back and Cueball continuing --- much in the matter of an internet communication protocol, as referenced in the title. JamesCurran (talk) 17:06, 29 January 2014 (UTC)

Really excellent explanation. Complete, concise and well written, with some helpful notes in the comments. Keep up the good work! 108.162.219.58 18:43, 29 January 2014 (UTC)

I agree this would explain the protocol title, but how does it compute with the message at the bottom: I've discovered a way to get computer scientists to listen to any boring story?