Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/17/84 chuqui version 1.7 9/23/84; site nsc.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!ihnp4!nsc!chongo From: chongo@nsc.UUCP (Landon Noll) Newsgroups: net.crypt,net.unix Subject: Re: Xenix & crypt Message-ID: <2583@nsc.UUCP> Date: Wed, 10-Apr-85 05:27:57 EST Article-I.D.: nsc.2583 Posted: Wed Apr 10 05:27:57 1985 Date-Received: Thu, 11-Apr-85 00:22:07 EST References: <111@loonam.UUCP> <133@mot.UUCP> <607@rlgvax.UUCP> <321@petrus.UUCP> <2577@nsc.UUCP> <323@petrus.UUCP> Reply-To: chongo@nsc.UUCP (Landon Noll) Organization: Rational Swamiconductor, Sanivale Lines: 24 Xref: watmath net.crypt:352 net.unix:4192 Summary: In article <323@petrus.UUCP> karn@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 /\aa/\ -- no comment is a comment.