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From: jgk@osc.COM (Joe Keane)
Newsgroups: sci.electronics,sci.crypt
Subject: Re: VCR PLUS+ ...PSSST...WHAT'S THE CODE?
Summary: Give me some data.
Keywords: encoding
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Date: 1 May 91 18:51:22 GMT
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In article <GUEST.91Apr29180522@geech.ai.mit.edu> guest@geech.ai.mit.edu
(Guest Account) writes:
>For those of you who have heard of VCR PLUS+, does anyone know how the
>date, channel, start time and stop time are encoded into the program
>number?  Here are examples:

I'm curious about this too.  I doubt these guys hired professional
cryptographers to design their encoding scheme, so i bet it's not hard to
break.  Does anyone have information on the scheme?  Failing that, does anyone
have a large number of examples they'd like to send me?
--
Joe Keane, amateur cryptographer
jgk@osc.com (...!uunet!stratus!osc!jgk)