1995-08-12 - Re: Purple Boxes

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From: shamrock@netcom.com (Lucky Green)
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
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Message ID: <199508121719.NAA14221@bb.hks.net>
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UTC Datetime: 1995-08-12 17:21:39 UTC
Raw Date: Sat, 12 Aug 95 10:21:39 PDT

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From: shamrock@netcom.com (Lucky Green)
Date: Sat, 12 Aug 95 10:21:39 PDT
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: Purple Boxes
Message-ID: <199508121719.NAA14221@bb.hks.net>
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In article <9508121008.AA10417@anon.penet.fi>, an264373@anon.penet.fi
(Sauroth) wrote:

>Actually quite a few hackers/phreaks have been encrypting phone 
>conversations for a while.  Not by any complex mathematics but 
>simple modifications to the phone frequencies...Don't have any 
>sites handy but for those interested I'll look up some of my old
>material.

This is encryption of the type that, as Bruce Schneier would say, prevents
your little sister from listening in on your phone call. Trivial to break.

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