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Re: Every Spy Should Carry a Bible

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From: Scott Cunningham
Date: Thu, 01 Oct 1992 04:20
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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?
 "he/she would assign a "long beep" to sins in the bible, and a
 "short beep" to those that weren't. By using the bible as the key, we
 "could have uncrackable, undetectable, and public key encryption.
 "Any comments?
 "Chris Lapp

Why not use another more obscure text and do the same thing.  For example  
use a different pulp romance novel each time and associate your sins with  
those which actually occured in the book used.  This is by no means  
uncrackable, just real obscure.  It breaks down when you have to tell your  
partner what book to use, if someone were to find out they would have your  
code down cold in minutes.  The way around this is to use an encryption  
like RSA where each person has his/her own key thus no key to have to  
transmit, no key to intercept.

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Scott Cunningham \ We're the NSA                                        \
Username: flagg  \ So your the ones I hear on the other end of my phone \
                 \ No, that's the FBI                                   \
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