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- ==Phrack Inc.==
-
- Volume Two, Issue Eleven, Phile #5 of 12
-
- {Simple Data Encryption}
- <or digital electronics 101>
- By:{The Leftist}
-
- Prologue:
-
- Well, it's been awhile since I've done one of my activities files. This time
- I've switched from chemistry to electronics. Hopefully, I will be writing
- more files similar to this one. Also, I have devised a more sophisticated
- encryption device, which I may release in the future
-
- Do you run a BBS, living in fear that the "feds" are gonna log on, and fool
- you into giving them a password? Do you wish that you could limit exactly WHO
- logs onto your board? Well, this file is just for you..
-
- Parts:
-
- 1:9 volt battery
-
- 1: 74hc/hct04 cmos hex inverter <about .50 cents>
-
- Some basic knowledge of electronics might help, and some wire would be helpful
- too. If you want to be fancy you can even splurge and get a 9 volt connector.
-
- Note: Although it is not required that you put this on an etched PC board, you
- can do this quite easily, and it makes for a much cleaner job.
-
- Ok, the basic idea behind this scheme is this:
-
- Data coming to and going from your modem is translated as 1's and 0's. This
- represents highs and lows, which translate out to code which your computer
- recognizes as valid data. Now, if you could switch all those 1's to 0's, and
- 0's to 1's, then you would have a simple way of encrypting your data. That's
- exactly what the hex inverter does. If it sees a 0, it makes it a 1. If it
- sees a 1, it makes it a 0. So, what you want to do is have an inverter on your
- send line, and an inverter on your receive line. The computer you are
- connected to must also have inverters on its send and receive, or all you will
- see will be garbage! I tried to be as non-technical as possible in this for
- all you non-technical types out there.
-
-
- Connections:
-
- Hold the chip, and look at it. There should be a little notch in one end. Hold
- it as illustrated in the schematic:
-
- (80 columns)
-
-
- ______________________________
- | |
- 14 13 11 12 10 9 8 |
- | | | | | | | |
- __________________ |
- | | |_ to positive on battery
- \ 74hc/hct04 |
- / |
- |__________________| to negative on battery
- | | | | | | | |
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7______________|
- | | | |
- | | | |_________________________________to computer port
- | | |_______________________________from modem
- | |________________________________________________to modem conn.
- |________________________________________________ from computer port
-
-
- <all other pins are not connected>
-
-
- Ok, hook the + 9volts up to pin 14, and the negative up to pin 7.
- There are 6 inverters on this chip. For this, we will be using only 2 of them.
-
- Find the wire coming from your computer to the send data line on your modem.
- Sever this wire, and hook one side of it to pin 1. Hook the other end of it to
- pin 2. Next, find the receive data line, and sever it. Hook one end of it to
- pin 3, the other end to pin 4. That's about it.. if you want to use the other
- inverters on the chip, here's the complete pinouts.
-
- Pin# Name and function
- ---- -----------------
- 1,3,5,9,11,13 Data inputs
- ---------------------------------
- 2,4,6,8,10,12 Data outputs
- ---------------------------------
- 7 Ground
- ---------------------------------
- 14 VCC
- ---------------------------------
-
- Remember, that your BBS modem must have one of these devices on it, as well as
- the user calling. I have tested this on Smartmodems, and it does work. If you
- have an internal modem, this may be a little difficult for you.
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