Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site deepthot.UUCP Path: utzoo!dciem!psddevl!deepthot!zaphod From: zaphod@deepthot.UUCP (Lance Bailey) Newsgroups: net.startrek Subject: Re: prefix codes Message-ID: <530@deepthot.UUCP> Date: Wed, 5-Jun-85 09:05:27 EDT Article-I.D.: deepthot.530 Posted: Wed Jun 5 09:05:27 1985 Date-Received: Thu, 6-Jun-85 12:50:43 EDT References: <3175@dartvax.UUCP>, <311@petfe.UUCP> Organization: UWO CS, London Canada Lines: 42 about the question of Spock knowing the codes, since he IS an instructor for the federation, I think that it is entirely possible for him to know of ALL the aspects of the starships, especially since he is of very 'standing' for a captain. about the simplicity of guessing the codes yes, kirk did only put in a small number of digits, but I do imagine that this would undergo an encryption/enhancement that would append to this code one of 'beeeellions' of possibilities (the stardate, a hardwired serial # of the ship [scattered among the circuitry], a code which is updated by starfleet by a pseudo-innocent message [hi guys, how's your tribble?]) the last possibility relies on 'instantaneous' tranmission so that we all know the same codes,, but since voice to voice transmision is done to starfleet, this problem disapears. comments? =================== 4 222 4 4 2 2 4 4 2 would you say that this is a result of 44444 22 the "do-it if it feels good" generation? 4 2 -- i've got five bucks riding on it 4 2 4 22222 decvax!{utzoo|watmath}!deepthot!zaphod (Lance Bailey @ UWO Comp Sci, London, Canada) -- =================== 4 222 4 4 2 2 4 4 2 would you say that this is a result of 44444 22 the "do-it if it feels good" generation? 4 2 -- i've got five bucks riding on it 4 2 4 22222 decvax!{utzoo|watmath}!deepthot!zaphod (Lance Bailey @ UWO Comp Sci, London, Canada)