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From: toddpw@nntp-server.caltech.edu (Todd P. Whitesel)
Newsgroups: comp.compression
Subject: Re: Please take the recreational math articles elsewhere
Message-ID: <1991Apr7.020617.12261@nntp-server.caltech.edu>
Date: 7 Apr 91 02:06:17 GMT
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It just occured to me that this arbitrary digits stuff might really have a
compression or at least encryption use (encryption is a marginally appropriate
topic here, I know):

Has anybody tried developing a compression or encryption scheme that uses the
digits or bits of an irrational number as a key or pseudorandom generator?

I have no idea. The thought just occured to me as I was reading the topic
police postings.

Todd Whitesel
toddpw @ tybalt.caltech.edu