IP PIPE SCRUBBER

Scrubbing TCP/IP Pipe

Most web pages and e-mail uses standard ASCII or ANSI character formats which are transmitted in 8 bit formats. This means that the ASCII "A" is translated to the number 65 which is subsequently translated to the binary number 01000001, "B" is translated to the number 66 decimal or 1000010 binary, and so forth. The vast majority of transmissions use characters in numbers ranging from decimal 10 or 00001010 binary to 01111110 all of which leave that leftmost bit at zero throughout the range of numbers. By in large percentage the lower bits 1-7 (counting from the right) are used inordinately often to hold the value 1 where the eighth bit is almost always 0.

What this service provides?

This page loads a series of binary characters (as shown in the dark area above) and exercises the eighth bit with 1's while the other bits are set with a wide variety of values especially including 0's. Thus effectively "scrubbing" all of the bits by setting them to values they normally are never (or statistically less often) set to.

Does it really "scrub the pipe"?

No. The pipe is not really a physical pipe on the internet. What it is, is a series of wires connecting computers all over the world. The use of certain bits with specific values (bits 1-7 as 1, bit 8 as 0) polarizes these wires to bias to those specific values. This bias slows down your internet connection as those few signals that deviate from the tendency are harder to send - slowing down the whole communication stream. Once this binary de-polarization takes place, the whole communication stream is faster as the electro-magnetic bias is cleared. This bias removal speeds up communication which is where the metaphor of pipe scrubbing comes from.

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