[107564] in Cypherpunks
RUSSIAS Y2K FIX
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (lcs Mixmaster Remailer)
Sun Jan 17 14:29:42 1999
Date: 17 Jan 1999 19:20:01 -0000
To: cypherpunks@cyberpass.net
From: lcs Mixmaster Remailer <mix@anon.lcs.mit.edu>
Reply-To: lcs Mixmaster Remailer <mix@anon.lcs.mit.edu>
RUSSIA'S Y2K FIX
The Russian government plans to spend about $500 million to prepare its
aging computers for the year 2000 date conversion, $12 million of which will
be contributed by the U.S. through the World Bank. Complicating Russia's
problems are the fact that it has relied much more heavily on PCs and
midrange computers rather than larger mainframes. Also, many of its
PC-based applications are written in nontraditional programming languages.
To solve this last problem, a group of computer scientists at the University
of St. Petersburg has been working for seven years to develop the technology
to convert Russian systems into more universally used computer languages
such as C++ and Java, assisted by North Carolina-based Relativity
Technologies. (TechWeb 15 Jan 99)
"Mary had a crypto key,
she kept it in escrow,
and everything that Mary said,
the Feds were sure to know." -- Sam Simpson
#!/usr/local/bin/perl -0777-- -export-a-crypto-system-sig -RC4-3-lines-PERL
@k=unpack('C*',pack('H*',shift));for(@t=@s=0..255){$y=($k[$_%@k]+$s[$x=$_
]+$y)%256;&S}$x=$y=0;for(unpack('C*',<>)){$x++;$y=($s[$x%=256]+$y)%256;
&S;print pack(C,$_^=$s[($s[$x]+$s[$y])%256])}sub S{@s[$x,$y]=@s[$y,$x]}
