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Article #1152Re: Every Spy Should Carry a Bible
From: FORREST FRANCI HOUSTON
Date: Thu, 01 Oct 1992 01:24
Date: Thu, 01 Oct 1992 01:24
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In article <66926@cup.portal.com>, Christopher_C_Lapp@cup.portal.com writes: |> How about a cryptosystem that used the teachings of various |> religious figures in the Bible as its key?As a spy, I would write |> a passionate letter detailing my sins and moral turpitude to my spy partner, |> and he/she would assign a "long beep" to the aspects of my sins that were |> in accordance with the bible, and a "short beep" to those that weren't. T |> output would be a Morse-code of biblical proportions! By using the bible as t |> key, we could have uncrackable, undetectable, and public key encryption. |> Any comments? |> Chris Lapp I'm just getting started in studying cryptology but it seems to me that the magnitude of such a message would outweigh any advantage gained by do it. Also every spy would have to be well versed in theology, which has taken some people a life time in itself, in order to know which sins are and which sins are not in the Bible. While I'm in a low flame mode how about problems that would arise from using different versions of the Bible? Just my $0.02 Later! Forrest
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!wupost!sdd.hp.com!spool.mu.edu!agate!stanford.edu!rutgers!concert!rock!taco!eos.ncsu.edu!ffhoust From: ffhoust@eos.ncsu.edu (FORREST FRANCI HOUSTON) Newsgroups: sci.crypt Subject: Re: Every Spy Should Carry a Bible Message-ID: <1992Oct1.012435.4434@ncsu.edu> Date: 1 Oct 92 01:24:35 GMT References: <66926@cup.portal.com> Sender: news@ncsu.edu (USENET News System) Distribution: usa Organization: North Carolina State University Lines: 22