What's the opposite of a cat?

[Monty J. Harder]

On Mon, 25 Sep 2000 09:09:20 -0500 Brian Kelsay <bkelsay at askpioneer.com>
writes:

> 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.

  Better to use a perl script that throws away the first two "words" (the
'cat ID and the code type) and uses the actual barcode value as the key
for encryption.  Is it secure?  Not even close.  Is it Good Enough to
keep your boss from reading your mail?  Probably.
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