[87776] in Cypherpunks
Re: Secure phone
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Eric Blossom)
Mon Oct 6 16:30:39 1997
Date: Mon, 6 Oct 1997 12:19:57 -0700
From: Eric Blossom <eb@comsec.com>
To: aba@dcs.ex.ac.uk
Cc: frantz@netcom.com, cypherpunks@Algebra.COM
In-Reply-To: <199710061757.SAA01293@server.test.net> (message from Adam Back on Mon, 6 Oct 1997 18:57:44 +0100)
Reply-To: Eric Blossom <eb@comsec.com>
> How many digits are on the display of one of those phones? It seems
> that you should be able to concoct something which is easy to compute,
> and offers as much surety as the few digits on the display.
You get 6 big characters that you can see from a couple of feet away,
or three lines of 16 characters that you have to squint at ;-)
(It's a 100 x 32 pixel graphic display).
Eric
