[EMAIL PROTECTED] scripsit: > That would not describe the current use Theban (when it offers no real > secrecy, and when most occultists are aware of modern computer-based > encryption).
The intention of secrecy is not the same thing, obviously, as actual secrecy, as too many have found out to their cost. But surely the reason for using Theban, as a practical matter, is to keep the cowans (:-)) out? "Kid-sister" encryption has its place. For example, a system I worked on maintained credit card numbers in a database. Using strong encryption would have been pointless, considering that the key would have to be on the system for on-line credit card operations. But it seemed worthwhile to use a simple encryption to keep DB administrators from seeing card numbers by accident. So we encoded each digit as a 4-character string in binary, but using 0 and O instead of 0 and 1. So credit card numbers looked like 0O000O0OO0O0000O0OOO00OO0O00O00O0OO00O0OO00O000O000000OO0OO000O0. Seeing that over someone's shoulder wouldn't help you much. -- "We are lost, lost. No name, no business, no Precious, nothing. Only empty. Only hungry: yes, we are hungry. A few little fishes, nassty bony little fishes, for a poor creature, and they say death. So wise they are; so just, so very just." --Gollum [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.ccil.org/~cowan
