Date: Thu, 02 Oct 2003 10:14:17 -0700 From: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> To: Bill Moran <wmoran@potentialtech.com> Cc: chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Ack! SYSTEMTYPE=WIN32 Message-ID: <3F7C5CE9.FDFD537A@mindspring.com> References: <Pine.BSF.4.44.0309301845560.40930-100000@s1.stradamotorsports.com> <3F7ABB8A.3050408@potentialtech.com>
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Bill Moran wrote: > Jason C. Wells wrote: > > What's wrong with ROT_13? Is there a sploit for it? > > I think it was born 'sploited. > > > I figure if the guys at MIT allow it, it must be just fine. That Sam > > Hartman is a sharp guy. Why do you ask? > > Is this the same ROT_13 that Netscape mail used to use? ... that I > (seriously) had a Spiderman decoder ring for when I was a kid? Am > I getting it confused with something else? It's a Caeser cipher with a periodicity of 13. The point is not to be cryptographically strong... it's to be able to claim that anyone who decodes the content is in violation of the DMCA. Therefore, you can, for example, post DeCSS in ROT-13, and if the MPAA or DVDA comes after you for the sources being a DMCA violation, you can point out that their decoding of the sources is a DMCA violation. I've personally been lobbying for a cryptographic type definition from IANA for a crypto system called "plaintext". 8-). -- Terry
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