Xenix & crypt

[Landon Noll]

In article <323 at petrus.UUCP> karn at petrus.UUCP writes:
 >If I had the money, I'd love to set up a T1 line from here to somewhere
 >in Europe. Then I'd do nothing but run purely random, electronically generated
 >NOISE over it. The NSA would find my "code" impossible to "crack" and they'd
 >log it all away in the vault in hopes of being able to "decode" it someday.
 >Only at the T1 rate of 1.544 mb/sec, this would take about 30 inches
 >of 6250 bpi magtape per second, or about 93 2400' reels per day, or
 >33,837 reels per year. Meanwhile, I'd buy up all the land near Fort Meade
 >and wait for the Government to start expanding their tape storage sites...

You would have to be careful that you did not, by chance, transmit the
locations of all CIA agents over that line; lest the NSA come to your
house and ZAP you to itty-bitty-bits.  Remember that if a team of monkeys
hitting enough keys could do it, so could your line.  (much sooner too,
since monkey baud rate is much lower)  Also remember that the human mind 
seems to have a very good ability to pull order out of randon patterns.
If they wanted to hard enough, they might just be able to see anything
go across your line.

I myself would buy stock in mag tape firms that supply tapes to the NSA.

chongo <WARNING: transmission of noise could violate national security> /\aa/\
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