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Re: RSA - the song
On Sat, Aug 02, 1997 at 04:46:06PM -0500, [email protected] wrote:
> Interesting.
>
> Now for the obvious question, can you convert midi back to text?
Of course -- that was the point of the exercise. Not only that, but
midi can be used to generate sound, and pitch to midi converters can
go from sound to midi -- one way to look at this is that I've just
implemented part of an inefficient modem protocol. However, the
interesting thing from a legal point of view is that the intermediate
protocol is music. It is clearly music, in fact. I have written
many such compositions, and if I didn't say, you wouldn't be able to
pick out which one was RSA by listening.
> Looks like a new way to hide encrypted messages.
I'm not sure how good it would be for that. I find it more
entertaining as another example of the absurdity of the export ban.
--
Kent Crispin "No reason to get excited",
[email protected] the thief he kindly spoke...
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