Hacker News with Generative AI: Data Encoding

Smuggling arbitrary data through an emoji (paulbutler.org)
With ZWJ (Zero Width Joiner) sequences you could in theory encode an unlimited amount of data in a single emoji.
Security, Data Encoding, Unicode, Emoji
767 points by paulgb 9 days ago | 195 comments
Storybits: Error Resistant Mnemonics (rya.nc)
At DEFCON 22, Dan Kaminsky and I talked a little bit about something I built which he dubbed “Storybits[1]”. Storybits can reversibly transform short strings of binary data into a series of words designed to produce a mental image.
Security, Computer Science, Memory, Data Encoding
27 points by luu 112 days ago | 0 comments