Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1+some 2/3/84; site dual.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!mit-eddie!godot!harvard!seismo!ut-sally!mordor!dual!fair From: fair@dual.UUCP (Erik E. Fair) Newsgroups: net.followup,net.flame,net.politics Subject: Re: Big Brother IS wtaching you - cross border phone traffic Message-ID: <891@dual.UUCP> Date: Thu, 20-Dec-84 21:35:26 EST Article-I.D.: dual.891 Posted: Thu Dec 20 21:35:26 1984 Date-Received: Sat, 22-Dec-84 02:17:42 EST References: <213@calmasd.UUCP> <278@wjvax.UUCP> Organization: Dual Systems, Berkeley, CA Lines: 19 Xref: watmath net.followup:4301 net.flame:7337 net.politics:6425 >> From: ron@wjvax.UUCP (Ron Christian) >> Date: Tue, 18-Dec-84 17:40:18 PST >> Organization: Watkins Johnson, San Jose, Calif. >> >> Wouldn't it be a gass if the government (any government) spent >> big bucks factoring the primes of an encrypted transatlantic >> submission and never figured out that the scheme was rot13?? >> -- Actually, I believe that decvax is compressing news going over the trans-atlantic link (with compact) so in a sense, it is already encrypted (to anyone who doesn't know what a Huffman encoding scheme looks like)... Erik E. Fair ucbvax!fair fair@ucb-arpa.ARPA dual!fair@BERKELEY.ARPA {ihnp4,ucbvax,cbosgd,hplabs,decwrl,unisoft,fortune,sun,nsc}!dual!fair Dual Systems Corporation, Berkeley, California