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- From: magnus@thep.lu.se (Magnus Olsson)
- Subject: Re: Every Spy Should Carry a Bible
- Message-ID: <1992Oct7.094612.4720@pollux.lu.se>
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- Organization: Theoretical Physics, Lund University, Sweden
- References: <BvpEx7.7Iq@fulcrum.bt.co.uk> <1992Oct7.024837.4565@unlv.edu>
- Date: Wed, 7 Oct 1992 09:46:12 GMT
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- In article <1992Oct7.024837.4565@unlv.edu> flagg@blind-lemon.cs.unlv.edu (Scott Cunningham) writes:
- >In article <BvpEx7.7Iq@fulcrum.bt.co.uk> igb@fulcrum.bt.co.uk (Ian G Batten)
- >writes:
- > "Suppose I strip off the bottom bit
- > "of each sample in a piece of music on CD and replace it with my ideal
- > "random bits, and press the CDs.
- >
- >Why go to all the trouble. If you really want to make it complex encrypt a
- >short message into decimal characters and use the resulting number as a measure
- >for a piece of non-heat expansive material. Put this material into a common
- >item and ship. The receiver removes the material and measures it with an
- >electron microscope, figures out the measure and decodes the message.
-
- Hah, that's a laugh (unless you only want to encode *really* short
- messages, of course)! You seem to have an exaggerated belief in the
- accuracy of machining methods. Or have I missed a smiley somewhere?
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