WITH 31,536,000 SECONDS IN A YEAR, A SUPER-COMPUTER PROCESSING AT A SPEED OF A QUADRILLION OPERATIONS PER SECOND CAN ONLY EXECUTE 31,536,000,000,000,000,000,000 OPERATIONS IN A YEAR. BY TRIPLING THAT NUMBER (31,536 X 3 = 94,608) AND ROUNDING IT UP TO THE NEAREST 100,000, WE GET 100,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 (10 TO THE 22ND POWER) AND WE CAN THEN DETERMINE THE NUMBER OF YEARS IT WILL TAKE TO TRY ALL THE POSSIBLE COMBINATIONS, BY KNOCKING OFF 23 ZEROES, WHICH WILL BRING IT DOWN TO 10 TO THE 34TH POWER (1 FOLLOWED BY 35 ZEROES). EVEN IF WE USED 1,000 OF THESE SUPER-COMPUTERS AND INCREASED THEIR SPEED 1,000 TIMES, IT WOULD STILL TAKE 10 TO THE 28TH POWER (1 FOLLOWED BY 29 ZEROES) TO EXPRESS THE NUMBER OF YEARS IT WOULD TAKE TO EXHAUST ALL THE POSSIBILITIES. (AND EVEN THEN IT WOULD TAKE 3 TIMES LONGER, SINCE WE MORE THAN TRIPLED THE SPEED OF THE COMPUTERS).
THE PROOF IS FOUND IN THE NUMBER OF POSSIBLE COMBINATIONS, AND THE TIME IT WOULD TAKE, EVEN A SUPER-COMPUTER, TO EXECUTE THEM ALL. AT 10 TO THE 57TH POWER ( THAT'S A 1 FOLLOWED BY 58 ZEROES), TODAY'S SUPER-COMPUTERS THEIR HIGHEST RATE OF SPEED OF 1 PETAFLOP (1 QUADRILLION) OPERATIONS PER SECOND, WOULD TAKE LONGER TO BREAK THE CODE THAN IT WOULD TAKE A SNAIL TO GO TO THE MOON.
WELL, SO MUCH FOR THE MATH.
IN A CERTIFIED LETTER, DATED OCTOBER 16, 1998, SENT TO BOTH MR. LOUIS FREEH, DIRECTOR OF THE F.B.I., AND MR. GEORGE J. TENET, DIRECTOR OF THE C.I.A. CHALLENGING BOTH ORGANIZATIONS TO 'BREAK THE CODE' OF THE 'COPAC' ENCRYPTION SYSTEM, WE DESCRIBED HOW 'COPAC' WORKS, AS FOLLOWS:
OF COURSE, INSTEAD OF COPYING IT TO A FLOPPY (1990 TECHNOLOGY), YOU CAN NOW SIMPLY E-MAIL YOUR MESSAGES, FILES, BRIEFS, DRAWINGS, PICTURES, LETTERS, DIAGNOSIS, DIAGRAMS, MUSIC OR WHATEVER YOU MAY HAVE STORED IN YOUR COMPUTER, THAT YOU WANT TO E-MAIL TO SOMEBODY IN THE STRICTEST OF CONFIDENCE, NOT JUST WITH PRETTY GOOD PRIVACY (PGP), BUT WITH GUARANTEED ABSOLUTE SECURED SECRECY (GASS). BOTH LETTERS CONTAINED 3 PAGES OF NOTHING BUT NUMBERS, CONSTITUTING A CODED MESSAGE THAT WE CHALLENGED THEM TO DECIPHER. WE GAVE THEM TILL NOVEMBER 20, 1998, AFTER WHICH TIME WE ACCEPTED THEIR SILENCE AS THEIR INABILITY TO BREAK THE CODE. ON NOVEMBER 23, 1998 THE C.I.A. RESPONDED BY RESPECTFULLY DECLINING OUR CHALLENGE. THE F.B.I., TILL THIS DATE, HAS NOT YET RESPONDED. THE OBVIOUS CONCLUSION: THEY COULDN'T BREAK THE CODE ! PRIOR TO CONTACTING THE F.B.I. AND THE C.I.A., WE HAD SENT A SIMILARLY CODED MESSAGE TO MR. BILL GATES, THEN CHAIRMAN OF MICROSOFT CORPORATION, WHO, AT THAT TIME WAS INVOLVED IN A LAW SUIT WITH THE U.S. GOVERNMENT, AND WHO, IF HE HAD USED THE 'COPAC' ENCRYPTION SYSTEM TO WRITE HIS MEMOS, IN ALL LIKELIHOOD WOULD HAVE FARED OFF MUCH BETTER THAN HE DID, BECAUSE IF HE HAD USED 'COPAC' TO WRITE HIS MEMOS, THE GOVERNMENT COULD NOT HAVE CONFRONTED HIM LATER, WITH COPIES OF THOSE SAME MEMOS, BECAUSE, THEY WOULD NOT BE ABLE TO DECRYPT THEM ! MR. BILL GATES, IN SPITE OF HIS EASY ACCESS TO ALL KINDS OF SOPHISTICATED COMPUTER SYSTEMS AND COMPUTER EXPERTS, LIKEWISE FAILED TO RESPOND. COPAC IS FOR YOU ! WE ARE SO CONFIDENT, THAT THE 'COPAC' CODE C A N N O T BE BROKEN, THAT WE ARE OFFERING $1,000,000.00 (ONE MILLION DOLLARS) TO THE FIRST PERSON WHO CAN CORRECTLY DECIPHER THE MESSAGE FOUND UNDER THE HEADING OF 'THE ENIGMA'. IF YOU WANT TO TRY YOUR 'DE-ENCRYPTION' SKILLS, CLICK ON 'THE ENIGMA' BUTTON, AND GIVE IT A TRY. WHO KNOWS, YOU MAY GET LUCKY. |
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