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Re: More on video

  • From: Deepak Jain
  • Date: Mon Sep 21 11:55:24 1998

Then you are creating a market whereby anyone with the ability to break 
the code, whatever the code is, (either by brute force, or technical 
skill) will have a distinct market advantage over their competitors (new 
media outlets).

-Deepak.


On Fri, 18 Sep 1998, Dorn Hetzel wrote:

> 
> They could just release it encrypted with DES, and make it the next
> key challenge :)
> 
> On Fri, Sep 18, 1998 at 05:26:50PM -0400, David Lesher wrote:
> > Unnamed Administration sources reported that Sean Donelan said:
> >  
> > > Unlike last Friday when no one really knew exactly what was in
> > > the boxes, GPO has all weekend to prepare this time.  They should
> > > have enough copies at the GPO window for all the news media on
> > > Monday morning so there is no need to beat up on the government
> > > Internet servers.
> > 
> > They COULD open up distribution all weekend; but encrypted.
> > Then, release the key Monday.  
> > 
> > (Oops, real encryption is an evil terrorist weapon with no valid
> > uses....  How could I have forgotten that?)
> > 
> > 
> > -- 
> > A host is a host from coast to [email protected]
> > & no one will talk to a host that's close........[v].(301) 56-LINUX
> > Unless the host (that isn't close).........................pob 1433
> > is busy, hung or dead....................................20915-1433
>