[crypt] Re: Breaking VCR Plus codes?

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From: Ken Shirriff
Date: Thu, 13 Jun 1991 22:36

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Archive-name: tv/vcr/vcr-plus/1991-06-13
Archive: sprite.berkeley.edu:vcr.Z [128.32.150.27]
Original-posting-by: shirriff@sprite.berkeley.edu (Ken Shirriff)
Original-subject: Re: Breaking VCR Plus codes?
Reposted-by: emv@msen.com (Edward Vielmetti, MSEN)

In article <1991Jun13.110139@neiman.east.sun.COM> marcus@neiman.east.Sun.COM writes:
>There was a posting in rec.arts.tv awhile back that said that members of
>sci.crypt had already broken the VCR Plus codes.  
>Is this true?  Can they be reposted?

I've figured out an algorithm for the codes codes 1-1000.  You can get the
program to decode these codes by anonymous ftp from sprite.Berkeley.EDU in
the file "pub/vcr.Z".  As far as I know, nobody has broken any more of the
code, but it should be doable.

Ken Shirriff			shirriff@sprite.Berkeley.EDU

-- comp.archives file verification
sprite.berkeley.edu
-rw-rw-r--  1 shirriff guest       10959 Jun 13 11:38 vcr.Z
found vcr-plus ok
sprite.berkeley.edu:vcr.Z

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Subject: [crypt] Re: Breaking VCR Plus codes?
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