At 15:32 11.08.97 +0100, Adam Back wrote:
Mark Grant <mark@unicorn.com> writes:
I just wanted to make a few comments on the proofreading, in case anyone feels like releasing software in a similar manner in future:
[...] the OCR-ed pages at HIP included a per-line checksum. This was good... but... it also checksummed the whitespace. This wasn't a problem in theory, because tabs were indicated by a special character. However, most lines had both tabs *and* spaces and there was no way to see where the spaces were because they were overrriden by the tab (e.g. "mov<sp><tab>ax,23<sp><sp><tab><sp><tab>; Stuff").
How about a book full of 2D barcodes?
As a plus perhaps the book would be more compact, as you could gzip it first -- the full source tree looks to be over a foot of doublesided paper!
How about importing the scanned in source (in electronic form) back into the States and doing a 'diff' there. This could produce an electronic patchfile to repair the mistakes in the scanned in code, meaning that the whole of the code could be cleaned up in one go. This patchfile could then be exported as it holds no crypto source code. (Somehow this seems *too* simple. Would this perhaps get up the US gubmint's nose? Have I missed some nuance or implicit limitation?)
Adam -- Have *you* exported RSA today? --> http://www.dcs.ex.ac.uk/~aba/rsa/
print pack"C*",split/\D+/,`echo "16iII*o\U@{$/=$z;[(pop,pop,unpack"H*",<> )]}\EsMsKsN0[lN*1lK[d2%Sa2/d0<X+d*lMLa^*lN%0]dsXx++lMlN/dsM0<J]dsJxp"|dc`