Re: Weird PBeM server request

From: rmulfor@cello.gina.calstate.edu (Ray Mulford)

Date: Thu, 04 May 1995 00:00:00 +0000

In article <3o84d0$psk@cello.gina.calstate.edu>
Ray Mulford <rmulfor@cello.gina.calstate.edu> wrote:

> How do people exchange info if both players were supposed to make a
> decision secretly and reveal them simultaneously [like picking a TAC card
> in 1776 for example]?  If i could find a person to annoy daily, we could
> both send our selections to that person and he could forward the
> responses when they both [all] arrived.

Well, encryption is obviously the way to go.  I decided to write a very simple
yet weird encryption program in Pascal.  It doesn't work like a normal code.
Rather than sending a key to unlock the code, you send the data you encrypted.
 If the recipient enters your original move, it will generate the code you
sent him the first time.  For example, the text

MY BID IS SEVEN POINTS   becomes
 AX KCC DI UNWXQ CZYIYV   via my algorithm

So, we swap codes, and then we swap text.  You can check the text by typing it
in to make sure it generates the code.

As long as we're not swapping paragraphs of secret data, this'll work

Thanks for prompting me to dust off my limited programming skills.
--
Ray
---
Try this for an undeserved laugh:

Knock Knock
Who's There?
The Interrupting Cow
The Inter --- MOOOOOOO!!!!

References

Weird PBeM server request
rmulfor@cello.gina.calstate.edu (Ray Mulford)
Wed, 03 May 1995 00:00:00 +0000