Examining them for four months, Mr. Tutte saw patterns in the seemingly random string of characters.
"Now there's a new form of exclusivity to a string of characters.
Anyone can see where the lock is, but the key — a very, very long string of characters — is private.
"What is 3+2?" is just an arbitrary string of characters, and "5" is just one more arbitrary character.
An earlier version said the code of the website appeared to generate an ever-increasing string of characters.
Shannon pointed out that the length of the instructions used to encode a string of characters corresponds to the disorder, or "entropy", of that string.
Your online activity is also tracked based on your the string of characters associated with your computer, known as an I.P. address.
Since the key to a file is a string of characters, one has to know this key to find the data.
It's a string of characters identifying a specific address — kind of like a bank-account number, but one that requires a special, complicated key to open.
It is also signed with the "private key" of the person sending the money – a long string of characters that acts as the password to the transaction.
A bug in Apple's iOS means that anyone can crash an iPhone by simply sending it a certain string of characters in a message.
