On Sat, Aug 02, 1997 at 04:46:06PM -0500, amp@pobox.com wrote:
Interesting.
Now for the obvious question, can you convert midi back to text?
Of course -- that was the point of the exercise. Not only that, but midi can be used to generate sound, and pitch to midi converters can go from sound to midi -- one way to look at this is that I've just implemented part of an inefficient modem protocol. However, the interesting thing from a legal point of view is that the intermediate protocol is music. It is clearly music, in fact. I have written many such compositions, and if I didn't say, you wouldn't be able to pick out which one was RSA by listening.
Looks like a new way to hide encrypted messages.
I'm not sure how good it would be for that. I find it more entertaining as another example of the absurdity of the export ban. -- Kent Crispin "No reason to get excited", kent@songbird.com the thief he kindly spoke... PGP fingerprint: B1 8B 72 ED 55 21 5E 44 61 F4 58 0F 72 10 65 55 http://songbird.com/kent/pgp_key.html