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A Stick Figure Guide to the Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) (2009) (moserware.com)
83 points by Tomte on April 1, 2018 | hide | past | favorite | 2 comments



This is GREAT.

Does anybody know of / have a collection of explainers like these?

I've made a few myself:

- How Cryptography Works https://gun.js.org/explainers/data/security.html

- How distributed systems work (Master-Slave vs P2P, CAP Theorem, CRDTs, etc.) https://gun.js.org/distributed/matters.html

Has anybody made their own / have some good ones to add?


Not exactly what you asked, but you may be interested in this blog post and the list of technical illustrations given at the end of it: How to teach technical concepts with cartoons (https://jvns.ca/teach-tech-with-cartoons/).




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