For what its worth, the word "CICADA" appears to be an anagram of a TRIE mapping of the word "GOOGLE", and 3301 could interpreted as a representation of googul. In fact, if I was a betting man, which I am, I would say the person behind the puzzle is specifically Neils Provos, a Google security engineer who wrote two of the tools used in the puzzle and who has a long history of work in steganography.

Kod: Markera allt

7  g 111  1    1  a
17 o 1111 11   3  c
14 l 1100 100  4  d
5  e 101  1001 11 i
GOOGLE -> ACCADI -> CICADA


Further, the number 3301 can also be derived as
GOOGLE
GOOGUL
10^100
10100
10 10 00
XOR 01
11 11 01
3 3 01

Dagobert skrev:WP-artikeln: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cicada_3301

Någon har en teori på WP-artikelns Talk-sida:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Cica ... icada_3301

For what its worth, the word "CICADA" appears to be an anagram of a TRIE mapping of the word "GOOGLE", and 3301 could interpreted as a representation of googul. In fact, if I was a betting man, which I am, I would say the person behind the puzzle is specifically Neils Provos, a Google security engineer who wrote two of the tools used in the puzzle and who has a long history of work in steganography.

Kod: Markera allt

7  g 111  1    1  a
17 o 1111 11   3  c
14 l 1100 100  4  d
5  e 101  1001 11 i
GOOGLE -> ACCADI -> CICADA


Further, the number 3301 can also be derived as
GOOGLE
GOOGUL
10^100
10100
10 10 00
XOR 01
11 11 01
3 3 01

Själv har jag ingen aning om vad Cicada 3301 är. Och ingen aning om teorin ovan är vettig på något sätt.