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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: thames_sider who wrote (35090)	10/25/2001 1:38:17 AM
From: Michael M	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 82486

I did a quick search for material that might interest you regarding clandestine communication in plain sight. No doubt there are good sources but they did not leap to the front. The subject is tremendously interesting to me but I think it's best I drop it. I hope you don't think I'm ducking you.

To: thames_sider who wrote (35090)	10/25/2001 2:26:29 AM
From: cosmicforce	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 82486

I love hidden messages too Thames. Did you ever get Children's Life with all the hidden pictures? They'd have a tree with a wrench in the grain of the wood. – I wonder how intelligence people do looking for messages in the static of the Internet? My guess is not too well. Or maybe really well. I guess we'll see: Most Internet communications have an entirely literal meaning. In secret analyses, mathematical obscuration relies on numbers. I became knowledgeable about encryption because I wanted to understand random number generation. I wanted to replace my library function (16 bit) with a 32 bit (and later a 64 bit) generator. It turns out that you can use DES for this (and something called double-DES). Surprise, surprise. Turns out to understand encryption, you have to understand randomness, and vice versa.