On Sun, 12 May 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Huge numbers of people use modular arithmetic to secure their > credit card numbers, their transactions with overseas banks in tax > havens, their transfers of e-gold. They do not to understand > modular arithmetic. They just understand that third parties > cannot listen in, and that the site they communicate with cannot > be spoofed. Again, bull. Jeesh, you should go into the manure business. You'd be rich in no time. These poeple do -not- use modular arithmetic. The machines and the software they run does. They put a card in (maybe) and enter a number or two and then wallah, it happens like (Clarkian) magic. Further, if they believe these systems are foolproof then they're mistaken. They are -hard- to crack, not impossible. -- ____________________________________________________________________ The law is applied philosophy and a philosphical system is only as valid as its first principles. James Patrick Kelly - "Wildlife" [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.ssz.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.open-forge.org --------------------------------------------------------------------