Re: Encryption is like a locked suitcase

Adam Shostack (adam@weathership.homeport.org)
Sat, 22 Aug 1998 18:32:53 -0400

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Microsoft Excel contains a complete flight simulator as an Easter
Egg. "Why they're so big?"

Adam

On Fri, Aug 21, 1998 at 05:07:08PM -0700, Ted Lemon wrote:
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| It wouldn't be that hard to write a program that takes an arbitrary
| sequence of bits and uniquely encodes them into a series of machine
| instructions that actually execute and don't do anything surprising.
| So you could have a working executable that hides encrypted data. At
| some point Customs is going to start wondering why you have so many
| executables, though, and why they're so big...
|
| _MelloN_

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