[5558] in cryptography@c2.net mail archive
Re: Paul Brown on Solitiare randomness flaw?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bill Stewart)
Thu Sep 9 10:53:32 1999
Date: Wed, 08 Sep 1999 20:32:56 -0700
To: Arnold Reinhold <reinhold@world.std.com>
From: Bill Stewart <bill.stewart@pobox.com>
Cc: coderpunks@toad.com, cryptography@c2.net
In-Reply-To: <v04210105b3fb8e72a461@[24.218.56.100]>
At 09:23 AM 9/8/99 -0400, Arnold Reinhold wrote:
>BTW, several of these units also permit assembly language
>programming. The 83/83+ is Z80 based. The 89/92+ are 68000 based,
>with 188K of RAM. PGP isn't out of the question on those.
...
>Staples stocks the TI-83+ at $92.99. So for under a hundred bucks and
>a little time spent in TIBasic programming you can own an
>off-the-shelf coding machine using strong encryption, interoperable
>with CipherSaber programs on other platforms, in a reasonably
>portable and innocent-looking package. And it will still do math.
Of course, you can get a low-end Palm Pilot for about $130-150
(or cheaper if you buy used from somebody upgrading.)
More memory, and you don't have to program in Basic.
Thanks!
Bill
Bill Stewart, bill.stewart@pobox.com
PGP Fingerprint D454 E202 CBC8 40BF 3C85 B884 0ABE 4639
