[free-sklyarov] An Alternative Line of Argumentation

[Jay Sulzberger]

On Sun, 22 Jul 2001, Brian Hicks wrote:

> On Sun, Jul 22, 2001 at 04:00:43PM -0400, Jay Sulzberger wrote:
> > Every issue any human being has ever demonstrated about, including
> > slavery, the death penalty, and the WTO is hard to fully explain in less
> > than 30 seconds.  Here we have the advantage that the secret decoder ring
> > is not an analogy, but an implementation of one cipher, the
> > mono-alphabetic substitution, used by an Adobe partner to "protect the
> > copyright holder's interests".
>
> This is slightly off topic, but being a caesar cipher, rot13 is actually
> less sophisticated than the vast majority of decoder rings.  Since a
> caesar cipher has 26 possibilities (rot13 being the most famous one), and
> a mono-alphabetic substitution has 26! possibilities.
>
> Hell, the Cryptoquip in the paper is more complex than Adobe's encryption
> by several orders of magnitude.
>
> --
> Brian Hicks* <hick0142 at umn.edu> "Crush the lesser races!  Conquer the

Not off topic.  On topic.  Makes the quick explanation better:

An Adobe product that sells for $3000 is feeble compared to the "secret
decoder ring", and a man sits in jail because Adobe does not want you to
know this.

Is it an Adobe product, or a joint production of Adobe and a partner?

oo--JS.