Schneier's source code
michael shiplett
michael.shiplett at umich.edu
Tue Apr 26 13:06:44 PDT 1994
"tcm" == Timothy C May <tcmay at netcom.com> writes:
tcm> Someone in Cypherpunks has a novel solution: print code in the
tcm> most easily OCRable font---I think the suggestion was that OCR-A
tcm> and OCR-B, or somesuch, are optimized for this (one would think
tcm> so from the names, but I had thought they had something to do
tcm> with the magnetic ink printing on checks...).
One of the computer magazines ("Compute"?) in the '80s used to
supply source in a bar code format which was readily scanned into
one's machine using one of those "light wands." I don't know what
export restrictions might apply to this distribution method.
michael
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