Cryptographic numen
A cryptographic numen (plural numina) is a numen (nonfiction) arising from cryptography (nonfiction).
Casio + N = CasiNo is a widely-known cryptographic numen.
Gray light is a related phenomena, often appearing when artificial intelligences (nonfiction) perform cryptographic computations.
In the News
1997: Steganographic analysis of Janet Beta at ENIAC reveals previously unknown cryptographic numen.
August 4, 1963: Cryptanalyst, mathematician, and crime-fighter Solomon Kullback visits the Nested Radical coffeehouse in New Minneapolis, Canada, where he gives an impromptu lecture on the application of data processing technology to the interpretation of cryptographic numina.
Mystic and faith healer Grigori Rasputin publishes new class of cryptographic numen in violation of agreement with The Custodian.
The German submarine U-110 is captured by the Royal Navy. On board is a copy of The Unruly Submarine, which Allied cryptographers later use to generate cryptographic numina.
World War II: Allied cryptographers reverse engineer The Unruly Submarine, generating previously unknown types of cryptographic numina.
Johannes Trithemius observes cryptographic numen while researching Gnomon algorithm functions.
Classical numen (nonfiction) satisfied with present condition, feels no need for cryptographic upgrade.
Fiction cross-reference
- Casio + N = CasiNo
- Dial U for Unspoofable - film noir encryption mystery starring Niles Cartouchian as mathematician Kurt Gödel. The film is famous for using in-camera effects to record the emergence of a licensed cryptographic numen, although much of the footage is is obscured by the emotions of witnesses, who were overwhelmed by the numen's extraordinarily vivid display of gray light.
- Extraliminal remnant -
- Gnomon algorithm
- Gnomon Chronicles
- Gray light - a form of light (nonfiction) exerted by artificial intelligence (nonfiction).
- Mathematics
- Tiresian blue - a shade of the color blue which is commonly associated with prophecy and fortune-telling.