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- From: cepek@vixvax.mgi.com
- Newsgroups: sci.crypt
- Subject: Re: Any way to CREATE Vcr+ codes?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan6.144742.2474@vixvax.mgi.com>
- Date: 6 Jan 93 14:47:42 CDT
- References: <1iaa91INNhgr@agate.berkeley.edu> <1993Jan5.191138.16420@netcom.com> <29287@oasys.dt.navy.mil>
- Organization: Management Graphics, Inc.
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- In article <29287@oasys.dt.navy.mil>, curt@kcwc.com (Curt Welch) writes:
- > I'm one of the people the "broke" the codes. It isn't that simple.
- :
- > The algorithm was created by many, many hours of research.
- :
- > You don't have to collect published codes, you can just sit down with the
- > VCR Plus+ device and start punching in numbers. But there are 9,999,999
- > 7 digit codes (and each one requires 9 button presses to test), so it can
- > take a long time to get enough numbers.
- >
- > This is at least part of why we stopped working on the codes. It was
- > taking too much time.
-
- OK, let's see. Break out the old, klunky hot-box computer. Warm up
- the solder gun. Use an I/O port to "press" the buttons on the unit, and
- read the output with a(n infrared?) detector. Push RUN, let it go for
- awhile, and then look at the gathered data. It may not be trivially
- easy (the funnest things often aren't), but it doesn't have to be slow.
- Just a-dreamin'...
-