OpenPGP Mozilla to kill Enigmail, Elliptic Crypto, XRay Decapping, Exhausting CD Ripping Structures, Nuclear Farts

[Zenaan Harkness]

On Wed, Oct 09, 2019 at 12:50:49PM -0400, grarpamp wrote:
> https://byuu.net/compact-discs/structure
> https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21185897

Full-raw (at least, below RSPC/CIRC) CD/DVD reader/writer "should be
done" nowadays - with muti core CPUs and insane TFLOPs on GPUs,
brute-forcing correction codes etc should be a no brainer.

And with some fancy PRNG/crypto sequences, should be able to more
cheaply (in data space/ 8to14 terms) handle the "too many 1s in a
row" problem and get much closer to the raw actual 2.33GiB of a
CD-ROM.

Back in the day of the 486DX and lusty 60MB HDDs, CDs were a godsend
and the fact they worked at all is apparently in hindsight amazing
(1690MB of ECC etc, to get the remaining 640MB "reasonably stable/
error free over time").  But today, software defined analogue laser
output decoding looks "entirely reasonable" and with many potential
benefits.