Date: Wed, 5 Mar 2014 14:37:22 -0800 From: Gary Kline <kline@thought.org> To: FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: a low-level question; and one about ASCII solitaire [klondike] Message-ID: <20140305223722.GA17759@ethic.thought.org>
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Organization: Thought Unlimited. Public service Unix since 1986.
Of_Interest: With 27 years of service to the Unix community.
guys,
two, three weeks ago, I wrote this list about a solitaire
game that did not involved X; it was simply ASCII: I found
it in ports around 1994-5 and played it on breaks, etc, etc.
--i *still* want to ask if anybody remembers playing Klondike
where "9D" == "9 of diamonds" and "KC" == "king of clubs";
because it was easy to play and required only "hjkl" and
"spacebar." but I just watched a short TED video that I
believe everyone should watch.
I've been meaning to pose a more serious qstn about public-key
encryption. like:: will phil zimmerman's program still be
unbreakable for at least a few centuries? --Sidebar: when I
first taught myself C {circa 1979} an early program did
encryption. it was slow on the pdp-11/70, but unless you
guessed the password, you were 99.97% out of luck. sadly, like
the solitaire program, it got lost.
Anyway, watch the following on "gov't surveillance, then read
on. It mentions Linux as a target; that finally got me to write
http://on.ted.com/a038u
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other than the stuff on jottings.thought.org that may be
"found" in a hundred years, I dont have much worth looking
at. I have//have HAD a hardware firewall for years, &c, &c.
So: has any *BSD wizard invented any new crypto-ware *yet*.
more important: anybody know where the ASCII klondike prog
is? ...save my shoulder.
tia, y'all,
gary
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Gary Kline kline@thought.org http://www.thought.org Public Service Unix
Twenty-seven years of service to the Unix community.
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