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- From: m_reymond@zeus.dev.macsch.com (Mike Reymond)
- Subject: SWK's Paper "Decoding a VCR Controller Code"
- Message-ID: <1993Jan22.154951.17532@draco.macsch.com>
- Keywords: VCR+
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- Sender: usenet@draco.macsch.com (Usenet Poster)
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- Organization: MacNeal-Schwendler Corporation
- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 93 15:49:51 GMT
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- In SWK's paper:
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- Shirriff K, Welch C, Kinsman A, "Decoding a VCR
- Controller Code," Cryptologia, 16 (#3, July 1992), 227-234.
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- They had cracked the code for program lengths up to 300 minutes which
- corresponds to table entries up through 479. As shown below, I've
- discovered that for 6 digit codes the table entries extend past 479
- and, as one might expect, correspond to a duration of 330 minutes
- beginning with 11:30 PM down thru 8:00 AM. Do the times earlier
- than 8:00 AM encode to 7 digits? Or is the tenth bit (t subscript 9)
- of the mapped top, which is not discussed in the paper, used for the
- earlier times?
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- If the current date in the VCR+ device is 1-1-93, the:
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- table index Code Date Channel Start Length
- 480 100081 1 1 93 3 2330 330
- 481 100560 1 12 93 40 2300 330
- 482 101471 1 4 93 42 2230 330
- 483 101710 1 1 93 2 2200 330
- 484 101907 1 4 93 1 2130 330
- 485 102928 1 12 93 38 2100 330
- 486 102973 1 27 93 38 2030 330
- 487 103404 1 26 93 18 2000 330
- 488 105100 1 4 93 26 1930 330
- 489 106839 1 4 93 28 1900 330
- 490 106884 1 19 93 28 1830 330
- 491 107513 1 19 93 27 1800 330
- 492 107780 1 6 93 17 1730 330
- 493 108419 1 6 93 19 1700 330
- 494 108868 1 13 93 46 1630 330
- 495 109597 1 13 93 45 1600 330
- 496 109895 1 18 93 16 1530 330
- 497 110350 1 27 93 12 1500 330
- 498 100539 1 26 93 47 1430 330
- 499 101480 1 28 93 40 1400 330
- 500 101839 1 4 93 13 1330 330
- 501 102386 1 12 93 10 1300 330
- 502 102597 1 13 93 20 1230 330
- 503 103020 1 20 93 42 1200 330
- 504 103470 1 18 93 8 1130 330
- 505 103539 1 26 93 31 1100 330
- 506 103706 1 13 93 23 1030 330
- 507 104815 1 6 93 45 1000 330
- 508 105294 1 12 93 22 930 330
- 509 105599 1 21 93 45 900 330
- 510 106020 1 20 93 28 830 330
- 511 106123 1 19 93 27 800 330
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- Mike Reymond
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- e-mail: m_reymond@macsch.com
- phone: (213) 259-4926
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