Karl's question is probably the one I will need to answer first: What problem do I want to solve?
a) A bible which has not been (will not be) distributed sufficiently on paper to allow recipients to compare with known good texts. b) A hostile environment in which the Bible is considered a societal evil. c) A hostile environment where cults will try and undermine genuine Christian growth by producing a counterfeit "Christianity" On the plus side: d) An environment in which genuine computing knowledge is rare and not by necessity in the hand of those who oppose. e) An environment where Bibles are ripped out of your hand due to genuine hunger. f) An environment where theoretical access to source code will not significantly allow subversion of whatever scheme we chose as the source code on our servers is essentially not accessible due to slow internet connections. This is not a theoretical scenario, but one which affects in this or similar form several areas of this sad world. The challenge is to create sufficient protection to the text to make it easier to distribute an intact module then to mess with it. Easier for someone with less knowledge than me, a non programmer. Someone who is used to ripped Windows XP, has possibly some tools, but can neither compile nor is mentally capable of learning this within sufficient time scale. Someone with evil intent but not sufficient stamina to copy 66 books per chapter by hand, re-insert encoding and produce an equivalent but distorted module. The challenge is to do this while maintaining the ease of copying a module + programme allowing viral redistribution. The target is to create create just enough of an obstacle that the genuine text can overtake all ripped copies - until the church has sufficient strength to ignore cults and cranks and 6the genuine text has enough publicity to discredit the hoaxes. How is this for a reformulation of my problem? Peter _______________________________________________ sword-devel mailing list: [email protected] http://www.crosswire.org/mailman/listinfo/sword-devel Instructions to unsubscribe/change your settings at above page
