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"Basically, the code recurses a sha256 computation 1714 times to get a lookup key, and then once more to get a password for decryption." This is an Easter Egg.

"Basically, the code recurses a sha256 computation 1714 times to get a lookup key, and then once more to get a password for decryption." This is an Easter Egg. Barcelona fell on September 11, 1714 during the War of Spanish Succession and with that Catalonia's freedom as well. September 11 is the National Day of Catalonia. Also, at 17:14 of each and every game of FC Barcelona in Camp Nou Stadium, Barcelona fans claim for independence [1]. So it was not by chance that the coder chose 1714 for the encryption algorithm. [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EneqR3oDpmQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EneqR3oDpmQ

kilburn 9y ago
The 1714 is in an abbr tag with a title that explains that ;)
- striking 9y ago
  That's pretty hard to notice, haha.
  - kilburn 9y ago
    An Easter Egg for another Easter Egg... it seemed just right to me (and I didn't want to interrupt the article's flow with that, admittedly)
  - rnhmjoj 9y ago
    Off topic: I don't know if it's Firefox, GTK or some other component at fault but all tooltips in the browser last for an unreasonably short amount of time and it's really hard to read something more than a couple of words. I have to either view the page source or freeze the process. I wonder why a tooltip is supposed to disappear in the first place.
    - gras 9y ago
      My guess would be GTK, I'm on Debian Stretch, XFCE + i3 + firefox-esr and I have no such problem.
gfiorav 9y ago
Wasn’t this the succession war between Habsburg and Borbon dynasties? I’ve seen some depictions in paintings [1] where you can see soldiers from the Habsburg (wearing the Catalan berretinas) porting a Spanish flag... I believe it was more a war for two different models for Spain, not for independence or anything like that. Sounds like revisionism to me. [1] http://www.msde.es/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/2-Embarque-de-la-primera-espedici%C3%B3n-de-voluntarios-catalanes-a-Cuba..jpg http://www.msde.es/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/2-Embarque-de-...
- lottin 9y ago
  The war was between European powers and had many ramifications in different places. For Catalonia the net result was that it lost its political institutions and became a province in a centralised state.
  - HarfTarf 9y ago
    https://ipfs.github.io/public-gateway-checker/ https://ipfs.github.io/public-gateway-checker/
  - euyyn 9y ago
    Out of curiosity, how do the Catalan constitutions Charles promised to uphold compare to the current autonomy? Also, is it historically accepted that, if Charles had won, he wouldn't have done the same to the other regions with fueros / constitutions?
    - dangerbird2 9y ago
      The Crown of Aragon, which controlled the territories of modern-day Catalonia, was an independent state in all ways aside from military and foreign policy. The union of Castile and Aragon was a dynastic union, with very few shared institutions until the Kingdom of Spain was established in 1716. Aragon itself was a fairly decentralized state with constituent principalities having their own Corts and legal systems (rights referred to as "Furs" or "Fueros")

kilburn 9y ago

The 1714 is in an abbr tag with a title that explains that ;)

striking 9y ago
That's pretty hard to notice, haha.
- kilburn 9y ago
  An Easter Egg for another Easter Egg... it seemed just right to me (and I didn't want to interrupt the article's flow with that, admittedly)
- rnhmjoj 9y ago
  Off topic: I don't know if it's Firefox, GTK or some other component at fault but all tooltips in the browser last for an unreasonably short amount of time and it's really hard to read something more than a couple of words. I have to either view the page source or freeze the process. I wonder why a tooltip is supposed to disappear in the first place.
  - gras 9y ago
    My guess would be GTK, I'm on Debian Stretch, XFCE + i3 + firefox-esr and I have no such problem.

gfiorav 9y ago

Wasn’t this the succession war between Habsburg and Borbon dynasties? I’ve seen some depictions in paintings [1] where you can see soldiers from the Habsburg (wearing the Catalan berretinas) porting a Spanish flag... I believe it was more a war for two different models for Spain, not for independence or anything like that. Sounds like revisionism to me. [1] http://www.msde.es/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/2-Embarque-de-la-primera-espedici%C3%B3n-de-voluntarios-catalanes-a-Cuba..jpg http://www.msde.es/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/2-Embarque-de-...

lottin 9y ago
The war was between European powers and had many ramifications in different places. For Catalonia the net result was that it lost its political institutions and became a province in a centralised state.
- HarfTarf 9y ago
  https://ipfs.github.io/public-gateway-checker/ https://ipfs.github.io/public-gateway-checker/
- euyyn 9y ago
  Out of curiosity, how do the Catalan constitutions Charles promised to uphold compare to the current autonomy? Also, is it historically accepted that, if Charles had won, he wouldn't have done the same to the other regions with fueros / constitutions?
  - dangerbird2 9y ago
    The Crown of Aragon, which controlled the territories of modern-day Catalonia, was an independent state in all ways aside from military and foreign policy. The union of Castile and Aragon was a dynastic union, with very few shared institutions until the Kingdom of Spain was established in 1716. Aragon itself was a fairly decentralized state with constituent principalities having their own Corts and legal systems (rights referred to as "Furs" or "Fueros")