Thanks, but no thanks. I would like to graduate this June and I intend to do so. This incident occurred last year and the offending admin is no longer with our school.

Hi, One of the most surprising things that I discovered after dropping out of high school (in my senior year) is just how little my "permanent record" in school affected me after I was out. In particular, colleges are remarkably flexible about admiting people with interesting backgrounds who have demonstrated interests and skills in "non-standard" ways and who seem to know why they want an education. (In other words, schools look for reasons to admit people who may not have good grades but who've done interesting things and who show unusual interests. Sometimes all you have to do to show this is write a good essay or get a convincing letter of recommendation from someone who knows you well and has seen a side of you not reflected in your formal "record"). I'm mentioning this not to encourage you to drop out or to think that nothing you do matters, but rather because your posts remind me of me, 15 years ago. I believed, as you seem to, the message that my high school was sending: do things exactly the "right way" or you'll never get anywhere. In fact, I've discovered almost exactly the opposite to be true. The fact that you're doing unusual stuff like exploring computers and cryptography and the like suggests that you will have an easier time than you might think being successful in the much less structured life that you will be living after you finish high school. Don't let anyone tell you that success in high school is the only route to success in real life. The best kinds of success in life come from finding ways to expand and exploit your own interests and intellect. High schools rarely teach you anything about how to do this. -matt (who dropped out of HS, and now has all the credentials that he needs to do what he likes with his life)

On Sun, 27 Nov 1994, Jonathan Cooper wrote:

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Riiight. It's not practical to bring PGP in - these AIX boxes have disk drives but the C compiler has been removed. I don't have access to another AIX box to compile PGP on, either. crypt(1) is good enough.

Perhaps someone out there could assist this gent by emailing him an AIX-compiled binary of PGP 2.6.2? (Or a p.d. C compiler?)

John, What kind of AIX box? I have an IBM RT/PC running an old version of AIX at home, and might have access to a RISC/6000 if I need it. Tell me what kind of machine you are running and I will dump the executables somewhere you can get it. ... if you want it. -- Joe N. Turner Telecheck International turner@telecheck.com 5251 Westheimer, PO BOX 4659, Houston, TX 77210-4659 compu$erv: 73301,1654 (800) 888-4922 * (713) 439-6597

On Nov 28, 12:34am, jpb@gate.net wrote:

How long do you think it'll be before crypt disappears, though?

What would be cute would be to roll-your-own enigma using a series of standard Unix filters. It would seem moderately straightforward to maintain rotor files which are fed into tr, while using cut's and simple appends to move the rotors. I'd like to see them go chasing anyone by removing that set of standard Unix utilities. Ian.