[107565] in Cypherpunks
CHINAS Y2K FIX
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Anonymous)
Sun Jan 17 14:50:09 1999
Date: 17 Jan 1999 19:39:10 -0000
From: Anonymous <nobody@remailer.ch>
To: cypherpunks@cyberpass.net
Reply-To: Anonymous <nobody@remailer.ch>
CHINA'S Y2K FIX
China has given its airline CEOs an ultimatum for fixing the Y2K problem:
"All the heads of the airlines have got to be in the air on Jan. 1, 2000,"
says Zhao Bo, who's in charge of dealing with Y2K issues at the Chinese
Ministry of Information Industries. "We have to make sure there are no
problems in aviation." Zhao's ministry has a particularly vexing dilemma:
because 90% of the software used in China is pirated, technicians cannot
consult the manufacturers on how to fix the bug. Accordingly, the Ministry
of Information Industries has trained more than 5,000 freelance fixers who
will fan out across the country to work on computer systems, and the
government has published a list of emergency procedures for computer users.
(St. Petersburg Times 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]}
