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Article #1158Re: Every Spy Should Carry a Bible
From: Scott Cunningham
Date: Thu, 01 Oct 1992 04:20
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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\ No, that's the FBI \
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