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On Sun, 2003-02-02 at 18:49, Frank(ee) wrote: > Visit http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/spooks to unsubscribe from this list > > And what about �A Beautiful Mind� (Ron Howard, 2001), where this weird > mathematician works as a cryptographer but runs into psychiatric problems, > where his hallucinations lead him to consider himself a cryptographer of > numbers messages. Unfortunately I don't remember if we actually get to hear > numbers messages (think we did), but there are sheets full of numbers (of > varying length -oddly enough- if I remember well). The first major scene of his hallucinations involves him going to some unnamed military facility where they present him with a printout of the numbers captured from a Russian (IIRC) SW broadcast. Most of the remaining "crypto" stuff is based on newspaper and magazine clippings. It's an interesting fact that one of the symptoms of some forms of schizophrenia is the tendency to see patterns and connections that don't really exist in random data/events. It makes you wonder about some of the people on this list... ;) -- -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- #!/usr/bin/perl -w $_='while(read+STDIN,$_,2048){$a=29;$b=73;$c=142;$t=255;@t=map {$_%16or$t^=$c^=($m=(11,10,116,100,11,122,20,100)[$_/16%8])&110; $t^=(72,@z=(64,72,$a^=12*($_%16-2?0:$m&17)),$b^=$_%64?12:0,@z) [$_%8]}(16..271);if((@a=unx"C*",$_)[20]&48){$h=5;$_=unxb24,join "",@b=map{xB8,unxb8,chr($_^$a[--$h+84])}@ARGV;s/...$/1$&/;$d= unxV,xb25,$_;$e=256|(ord$b[4])<<9|ord$b[3];$d=$d>>8^($f=$t&($d >>12^$d>>4^$d^$d/8))<<17,$e=$e>>8^($t&($g=($q=$e>>14&7^$e)^$q* 8^$q<<6))<<9,$_=$t[$_]^(($h>>=8)+=$f+(~$g&$t))for@a[128..$#a]} print+x"C*",@a}';s/x/pack+/g;eval usage: qrpff 153 2 8 105 225 < /mnt/dvd/VOB_FILENAME \ | extract_mpeg2 | mpeg2dec - http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~dst/DeCSS/Gallery/ http://www.eff.org/ http://www.anti-dmca.org/ _______________________________________________ Spooks mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/spooks - Visit http://www.spynumbers.com/ for complete information about Spy Numbers Stations
