Tim Tyler wrote, On 2008-01-26 13:50:

At least they didn't go postal! :)

I'm still feeling light-headed about my dream last night. I cannot
believe it. After waiting for a peaceful sleep for the past couple of
weeks and actually enjoying it, I faced a very scary dilemma. I had a
dream, no, no, it's a nightmare. And I'm dreading to sleep later
because until now I don't have the answer to the terrifying question.

I was practically enjoying the calm feeling of my sleep when out
nowhere I was standing in the middle of a very very big arena. I was
distressed and confused by the sudden change of surroundings. I was
starting to be afraid when I heard a thundering sound coming from my
back. Ready to shout with all my might, I turned around and my jaw
dropped not because of my scream but because of an outmost amazement.

My king, the love of my life, was riding his horse,Brego, and stopped
infront of me. Oh, my Aragorn, I cannot believe it. I was about to
finally let a scream of delight pass through me when he grabbed my
hand and offered the most outrageuos proposal I've heard in my whole
life. He wanted me to be his queen. At long last, he said, Arwen was
out of his life and he came to me because I am the only one his heart
desires. Ohhh, what can I say? How can a lady like me answer an offer
like that?

On Sat, 26 Jan 2008 18:06:53 -0500, John E. Hadstate wrote:

On Jan 26, 7:47 am, JSH gmail.com> wrote:

N has to be odd.

That's why N has to be odd, but also note then that 'a' needs to be
coprime to N, so if you get an 'a' that is not, then it's not a useful
value.

CFP: The 2008 International Conference of Wireless Networks (ICWN
2008)
From: IAENG - International Association of Engineers

Draft Paper Submission Deadline: 6 March, 2008
Camera-Ready papers & Pre-registration Due: 31 March, 2008
ICWN 2008: 2-4 July, 2008, London, U.K.
http://www.iaeng.org/WCE2008/ICWN2008.html

The conference ICWN'08 is held under the World Congress on Engineering
2008. The WCE 2008 is organized by the International Association of
Engineers (IAENG), a non-profit international association for the
engineers and the computer scientists. Our congress committees have
been formed with over two hundred and eighty committee members who are
mainly research center heads, faculty deans, department heads,
professors, and research scientists from different universities like
Cambridge, MIT and Oxford etc.

The conference proceedings will be published by IAENG (ISBN:
978-988-98671-9-5) in hardcopy. The full-text congress proceeding will
be indexed in major database indexes so that it can be assessed
easily...

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Workshop "Medical Imaging Systems" within EUROSIS EUROMEDIA 2008
April 9-11, 2008, University of Porto, Porto, Portugal
http://www.eurosis.org/cms/index.php?q=node/461

We would appreciate if you could distribute this information by your
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Dear Colleague,

In recent years, extensive research has been performed to develop more
and more efficient and powerful medical imaging systems. Such systems
are crucial for medical specialists, allowing a deeper analysis...

I have been doing some reading on using modulo arithmetic as opposed to
using the xor function, i know that the xor function is modulo 2 arithmetic,
the question is, would breaking the xor function down into N steps decrease
the memory footprint of an algorithm, if so the reduction in time should
vary depending on the size of input 1 and input 2 and how many of them there
are, as part of a stream cipher for example.

the further question arises of how to break it down into steps, i know how
to break down modulo exponentiation but not any of the other forms of modulo
arithmetic.

links to reference material or explenations would be most welcome.

Would any German-speaking sci.crypt participant be so obliging
as to visit
http://wikileaks.org/wiki/Skype_and_the_Bavarian_trojan_in_the_middle
and describe the leaked memo? The phrase "trojan in the middle"
seems confused. I wouldn't expect Skype to be vulnerable
to a man-in-the-middle attack. Does this attack depend on
infecting the victim's computer with malware?

"JSH" gmail.com> wrote in message
news:dd1d2b2f-7000-42d2-9cf8-3c2dfb0fcf36@n20g2000hsh.googlegroups.com...

so we gotta picka "m",
picka "N",
and picka "y" or picka "z".

Now we gotta picka "k"
and picka "a"

We are up to guessing 5, *FIVE* numbers, JSH

On Sat, 26 Jan 2008 16:53:27 -0800 (PST), BobKellock wrote:

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