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Subject: Re: Any songwriters online?
From: roy@cybrspc.mn.org (Roy M. Silvernail)
Date: Fri, 19 May 1995 20:29:07 CST
Organization: The Villa CyberSpace, executive headquarters

In list.cypherpunks, stevenw@iglou.com writes:

> Anyone care to do a better job?

I'll hate myself in the morning, I'm sure... but you started it...

> Don't know much about cryptography
> Don't know much about steg'nography
> Don't know much about PGP
> Don't know much about Philip Z

But I know how to exclusive-or
And I think if I just did it more
What a wonderful code this would be

Don't know much 'bout anonymity
I'm only surfin' the vicinity
Don't know much about elliptic curves
Discrete log'rithms make me swerve
But I just invented Vigenere
And I think that if I use it here
What a wonderful code this would be

Now, I don't claim to be an 'A' student
I've got nothing to prove
Though maybe by being a real 'A' student
I could get by without peer review

Don't know much about modulus
I've got a small one, what's all the fuss?
I never heard of this guy Louis Freeh
How come he's asking me for my keys?
But I just invented ROT-13
Nobody's broken it, it's really keen
What a wonderful code this will be!

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