encryption
Original: encryption on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
Father (a man with glasses, mustache, and tie): Son, I want to talk to you about a new form of encryption.
Panel 2:
Father: I call it "encryption by destruction."
Panel 3:
Father: You take a piece of information, then destroy it in a random fashion. The information is now so encrypted that you can only get it back by knowing the entire state of the universe and having nearly infinite computing power.
Panel 4:
Son (a young boy): Wowww. Every time we destroy something, maybe we're just sending a message in a bottle to a future race of super-minds!
Panel 5:
Son: What an amazing thought, Daddy.
Father: Anyway, point is I accidentally let the cat encrypt your hamster this morning.
Votey:
Father (close-up of face, speaking): I also encrypted the rest of your birthday cake.
Father (a man with glasses, mustache, and tie): Son, I want to talk to you about a new form of encryption.
Panel 2:
Father: I call it "encryption by destruction."
Panel 3:
Father: You take a piece of information, then destroy it in a random fashion. The information is now so encrypted that you can only get it back by knowing the entire state of the universe and having nearly infinite computing power.
Panel 4:
Son (a young boy): Wowww. Every time we destroy something, maybe we're just sending a message in a bottle to a future race of super-minds!
Panel 5:
Son: What an amazing thought, Daddy.
Father: Anyway, point is I accidentally let the cat encrypt your hamster this morning.
Votey:
Father (close-up of face, speaking): I also encrypted the rest of your birthday cake.
Alt text
A four-panel cartoon. A bespectacled, mustached father talks to his young son. He says he wants to discuss a new form of encryption, which he calls "encryption by destruction": you take a piece of information and destroy it randomly, making it so encrypted that you'd need to know the entire state of the universe and have nearly infinite computing power to recover it. The wide-eyed boy enthuses that every time we destroy something, we might be sending a message in a bottle to a future race of super-minds, calling it an amazing thought. The father then casually adds: "Anyway, point is I accidentally let the cat encrypt your hamster this morning" -- meaning the cat killed the pet hamster. Votey aftercomic: an extreme close-up of the father's face as he adds, "I also encrypted the rest of your birthday cake."
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.