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1997-10-06 - Re: Secure phone

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From: Eric Blossom <eb@comsec.com>
To: aba@dcs.ex.ac.uk
Message Hash: 287dbf6250e6a0fb41c0aca476505b2855e205d9691105e5060fe211d9901fa4
Message ID: <199710061919.MAA22970@comsec.com>
Reply To: <199710061757.SAA01293@server.test.net>
UTC Datetime: 1997-10-06 20:02:35 UTC
Raw Date: Tue, 7 Oct 1997 04:02:35 +0800

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From: Eric Blossom <eb@comsec.com>
Date: Tue, 7 Oct 1997 04:02:35 +0800
To: aba@dcs.ex.ac.uk
Subject: Re: Secure phone
In-Reply-To: <199710061757.SAA01293@server.test.net>
Message-ID: <199710061919.MAA22970@comsec.com>
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> How many digits are on the display of one of those phones?  It seems
> that you should be able to concoct something which is easy to compute,
> and offers as much surety as the few digits on the display.

You get 6 big characters that you can see from a couple of feet away,
or three lines of 16 characters that you have to squint at ;-)

(It's a 100 x 32 pixel graphic display).

Eric

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