Dave Cross
Tue, 27 Mar 2001 04:02:38 -0800
At Tue, 27 Mar 2001 13:39:34 +0200, Philip Newton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Matthew Byng-Maddick wrote: > > The other possibility, I guess, given that it's london.pm is > > to make it relate to buffy in some way.... :) > > That reminds me of an idea I had this morning on the way to work -- > encode text using "Buffy" with uppercase and lowercase letters: > uppercase letters stand for "0" bits and lowercase letters for "1" > bits. (Or, if you prefer, bit 5 / 2**5 / 32 of each character > represents the bit to be encoded.) Then you just have to chop the > message into 5-bit chunks (adding 0 bits at the end if needed to pad > to a 5-bit boundary) and translate. I'm pretty sure I've seen something like this before. You encode text using the word 'moo'. I think it used upper and lower case 'o' and also a zero. I'm sure there was a web page somewhere that converted text to and from 'moo's. Or maybe I dreamt it. Dave...