Passwords to Babel

Passwords to Babel

Andre Willers

22 Oct 2014

“The Fourteen Passwords of Hercules” Used to be twelve . Hercules insisted on fourteen .

Synopsis:

The existence of passwords leads to chopping-up of meaning until unintelligibility . Passwords decrease intelligibility .

 

Discussion :

1.What happened before :

http://andreswhy.blogspot.com/2009/03/ancient-babylonian-information.html

 

2. Format-templates

Passwords being one of Format-templates functions .

You couldn’t access the information (password) or make sense of it (template coding)  unless you had the formatting hardware .

Clay dongles .

3. These were primary targets for capture by an invading force , or destruction (denial to enemy) by the defenders .

The data survived in baked clay-tablets with Hollerith-type sorting holes , but without the password-masks they are difficult but not impossible to decipher .

4.Passwords chop up information .

This immediately makes the process subject to Optimization as set out in http://andreswhy.blogspot.com/2008/04/infinite-probes2.html et al .

5. This means that the Secret of anything with passwords descends fractally

1/3 , 1/9 , 1/27 ,1/81,1/241 …etc

Or  , put it another way :

If the message is finite , then when the password is longer than the message then you have a Tower of Babel effect .

6.Actually , even if password is only 1/3 of message length , things will go haywire .

7. What does it mean ?

Optimal lying .
Reach 6 in small-world network , then stop .

An interesting variation of the Halting Problem

http://andreswhy.blogspot.com/2013/01/how-many-people-doe-my-blog-reach.html

If anybody had any idea of what they were doing , they would give 6 free tries , then easier tries in degrees of difficulty .

Even more interesting :

Number 2’s drive the system to destruction .

8. Passwords :

If passwords proliferate past the 6 degrees , they hamper more than protect .

 

9.The Reductio ad absurdum is when every phonetic letter has a password attached .

Errk ! Been done . anti-virus software. Does more harm than the actual virus .

Roman Catholic Church

Try to get any meaning from that in reasonably finite time .

 

10 .Lesson :

If your site is not too popular , no password .

If popular , add password after 300 000  hits . Or not . The whole password thing has been overdone .

11.Why publish , then password ?

To keep the riff-raff out ?  The riff-raff is your audience .

12. The Tower of Babel .

It is tempting to think that   that the whole shebang collapsed because some clerk dropped the master format-template .

What was his name ? Did he go home to his mud-hut and say “ Today I destroyed the Babel? “

Of course not . but destroyed it was .

http://andreswhy.blogspot.com/2014/10/prodigies-update-ii.html

Babylonian Golf : a hole in one .

Dreaming on the banks of the Euphrates .

Passwords for the Waters of Babylon .

Andre