What's the opposite of a cat?

[Brian Kelsay]

So, what do you use to create the printable barcode?  I had a label printer
at my last job that would do quite a few formats of barcodes (UPC, EAN 13,
etc.).  Unfortunately the software for it was for Windows.

-----Original Message-----
From: Randy Rathbun [mailto:randy at randyrathbun.org]
Sent: Monday, September 25, 2000 9:55 AM
To: Brian Kelsay
Cc: 'mike neuliep'; 'kclug at kclug.org'
Subject: RE: FW: What's the opposite of a cat?

I know there are a bunch of folks using the CC to do their passwords. Type
in your username, have a barcode as your password (name me one person who
has a password of cdagfhwuinw-dbimwfjiwo-djfimaoqmeiow - or whatever the
output would be) - and walla! Since everything is going through the
keyboard, it really would work well. 

Yes, you are right - the "encryption" they use is really lame. 

On Mon, 25 Sep 2000, Brian Kelsay wrote:

> 
> I think you completely misunderstood me.  I meant use the cue cat program
to
> encrypt the message.  Sure it's lame and not strong for important stuff,
but
> it would be different.  It would be neat to have a plug-in for Kmail or
> Netscape mail that would do this.
> 
> Here's an idea.  A group of people have a set of bar codes as the keys to
> all their encryption.  You run the message through the encoding perl
script
> and then scan a barcode to encrypt.  Am I off-base here?  The barcode
could
> initiate encryption in any algorithm it is tied to in the second
> "encryption" script.
> 
> Then again, maybe I just had too much OJ this morning and it is adversely
> affecting my cold-ridden brain.
> 
> Brian
> Severely over thinking things this morning.
> 

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