On Sun, 14 Jan 2001 18:16:53 +0800, J. J. Young wrote:
> Sam wrote:
>> Hello Arachnids:
>> Please go here: http://www.johnsux.f2s.com/ [altered]
>> Then view source (F6)
>> Really weird stuff.
>> Does anyone understand the concept of how this page works?
> -- Yes, but its only purpose appears to be denying a view of
> a webpage's content from those without a JavaScript browser
> or the time and wherewithall to decode the source.
> The body text is replaced with numeric entity equivalents
> for each character. JavaScript is used to write the HTML
> tags. You can make a page without the JavaScript. Maybe it
> was thrown in for obfuscation, and maybe the sellers of this
> program hope to trick people into thinking the design/formatting
> of their webpages will be encrypted.
If this is the case, and the numbers are merely the ascii equivalents,
then this is no encryption at all. What a scam!
<snip>
> -- There are plenty of online tutorials on JavaScript. I know you
> have access to a Win9x PC and no doubt a JavaScript browser, but
> do you really want to get embroiled? BTW, the page is viewable
> with NN3.04 and Opera3.60, 16-bit -- but plenty of current JS is
> _not_. For simple encryption experiments it may help to know that
> A to Z covers A - Z, and a to z covers a - z.
Yes, most of us already know all that, about how each ascii character
has a numeric equivalent. This is a no brainer for anyone knowing
anything at all about cryptology.
> Sam, thinking of cartography (as opposed to cryptography), there
> was a jokey news quiz on the radio recently which reported the
> UK Ordnance Survey's puzzlement over the popularity of a house-name
> in Wales. It turned out to be Welsh for "Beware of the dog".
Does the dog just bark? Maybe he really wails. Aaarf! Aaarf!
Has he ever caught a rarebit?
Well, I think it is time for me to go now and hit the bunny trail.
All the best,
Sam Heywood
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