The speaker, a cryptographer, challenges a participant to uncover their deepest secret hidden in a series of complex puzzles. The participant, who dislikes mathematics, is tasked with solving cryptographic puzzles and a series of other challenges, including a mayonnaise pie throwing distraction, a mime with a secret, and a series of puzzles involving hidden messages, ciphers, and a secret note. The participant struggles with the challenges, but ultimately fails to uncover the secret. The speaker reveals that the secret was hidden on the mime's shoe tongue. The experience was a mix of cryptography and random, unexpected elements.
1. Hidden messages are prevalent but often unseen.
2. The main task of a cryptographer is to uncover secret messages by breaking complicated codes.
3. The speaker has a deep secret which they plan to hide from a cryptographer.
4. Cryptographers analyze encrypted data using mathematical algorithms to determine its safety.
5. The speaker works at the Freedom of the Press Foundation, where they developed a tool called SecureDrop for whistleblowers to share sensitive information safely.
6. The speaker is particularly interested in the general danger of building systems with high-stakes audiences.
7. The speaker dislikes math and struggles with it.
8. The speaker has prepared a series of difficult puzzles as part of a strategy to keep their secret safe.
9. The speaker has created a devious distraction, hitting the cryptographer with a mayonnaise pie every two minutes to annoy them.
10. The speaker has hired a professional mime to reveal their deepest secret if the cryptographer fails to make the mime talk.
11. The speaker has created a challenge that involves solving puzzles, revealing information through a mime, and finding hidden messages.
12. The speaker has used a Caesar cipher to hide a message, which involves shifting letters three places over in the alphabet.
13. The speaker has hidden a black light clue on a window, and the cryptographer must find it to proceed.
14. The speaker has written an invisible message on the ceiling, which the cryptographer must find.
15. The speaker has hidden a note on page 666 of a dictionary, which contains a riddle for the cryptographer to solve.
16. The speaker has challenged the cryptographer to serenade a pizzeria cashier with a haiku to get the next clue.
17. The speaker has hidden a clue inside a red balloon, which the cryptographer must pop to find.
18. The speaker has hidden another clue on the mime's shoe tongue, which the cryptographer must retrieve to reveal the secret.
19. The speaker has used Wingdings font to hide a message, which the cryptographer must decode using a laptop.
20. The speaker has indicated that a significant portion of the challenge was not related to cryptography, but rather to unusual and humorous elements.