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Re: Every Spy Should Carry a Bible

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From: FORREST FRANCI HOUSTON
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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