Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2.fluke 9/24/84; site fluke.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!cbdkc1!desoto!packard!edsel!bentley!hoxna!houxm!vax135!cornell!uw-beaver!ssc-vax!fluke!moriarty From: moriarty@fluke.UUCP (The Napoleon of Crime) Newsgroups: net.flame Subject: Re: Re: Big Brother IS wtaching you - cr Message-ID: <184@vax2.fluke.UUCP> Date: Mon, 31-Dec-84 00:58:09 EST Article-I.D.: vax2.184 Posted: Mon Dec 31 00:58:09 1984 Date-Received: Wed, 2-Jan-85 00:13:46 EST References: <278@wjvax.UUCP> <4000026@hp-pcd.UUCP> <777@oliven.UUCP> Reply-To: moriarty@fluke.UUCP (The Napoleon of Crime) Organization: The Twilight Zone Lines: 58 In article <777@oliven.UUCP> hawk@oliven.UUCP (Rick) writes: > > >Rot 13 has (despite the continued difficulty of some people to unscramble >>it) all the security of a Captain Marvel decoder ring. If you measure the >>frequency of occurence of each letter and compare it to the norms for the >>english language then breaking it is trival. > >It does not. Rot 13 has all the security of a Captain Marvel ring set at M-1. >Rot-13 is one of the 26 different possibilities that a well done ring has. > >rick Right on, Rick! Boy, some of these johnny-come-techy-come-latelys don't understand that no rotten person worth their salt could break a Rot 13 code without their Malto-Meal Turing Machine and D-Day Invasion Kit, and a certain sense of Truth, Justice, and the American Captains of Industry. Here's a quick demonstration: ^%21gg12weares^ym@mettruc&&(twenty-three skidoo)!! This little sentence looks innocuous enough, doesn't it? But I'll give little Jacky Armstrong, the all-American Moppet my offical NSA Inspector Keene codebook, and ask him to decode it. Go to it, son! "SHAZAM!"And we have: Our fearless boys in khaki land in Grenada on Tuesday. Bring Water Wings. Yes, that's the actual message we used. But just let Boris Badenov over here try it... go ahead, Boris... "FEARLESS LEADER!" and he gets: Yo Mama ---- Well, I hope that lays aside any fears you had about Rot-13, the Only Cypher Sanctioned By The Almighty Himself (Amen). The Almighty appears courtesy of Vista records. "A power so great, it can only be used for Good or Evil!" Moriarty, aka Jeff Meyer John Fluke Mfg. Co., Inc. UUCP: {cornell,decvax,ihnp4,sdcsvax,tektronix,utcsrgv}!uw-beaver \ {allegra,gatech!sb1,hplabs!lbl-csam,decwrl!sun,ssc-vax} -- !fluke!moriarty ARPA: fluke!moriarty@uw-beaver.ARPA