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Old December 24th 03, 06:46 AM
Derek Lyons
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(George William Herbert) wrote:

Pete wrote:

And then when one of those CD's gets lost or captured...


One of those CDs is lost or captured, and then the opponent
has a years worth of weather reports and routine messages
to two tech sergeants and a light squad of flunkies and
guards in a warehouse / launch bunker in the middle of the
desert.


Or maybe if the war is two weeks away, you've got your 'East Wind'
message.

You use a different CD pair for each bunker. It's easy enough
with CD-Rs.


Easy enough to generate the CD's. Key distribution & syncing up could
be a bit problematical though. Solveable, but non-trivial.

D.
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