The Prime Page's Links++: curiosities/illegal

Links related to Prime Numbers
[ Add | Update | New | Popular ]

Courts have ruled that certain programs are illegal circumvention device under the Digital Millenium Copyright Act. Code, stored on a computer is a string of binary digits (bits). This of course means it is a number. So if some code is illegal, are some primes illegal?

Top : curiosities : illegal primes

Categories in curiosities : illegal primes

news stories (3): News about illegal primes

Resources in curiosities : illegal primes

An Executable Prime Number? - The executable code for a compiled version of DeCSS is actually a prime.
(Added: 11-Sep-2001 Hits: 2777 Rating: 3.43 Votes: 7) Rate It
DeCSS gallery's Steganography Wing - The gallery has excellent links to related information.
(Added: 17-Mar-2001 Hits: 1375 Rating: 10.00 Votes: 2) Rate It
Prime Curios! entry : first illegal prime - Phil Carmody used gzip to encrypt deCSS into the first known illegal prime number!
(Added: 17-Mar-2001 Hits: 4125 Rating: 8.62 Votes: 7) Rate It
Prime Curios! entry: illegal prime #3 - The "deCSS" variant efdtt.c source itself becomes a prime number if you rename the variables right.
(Added: 8-Sep-2001 Hits: 1078 Rating: 0 Votes: 0) Rate It
Prime Curios! entry: illegal prime #4 - The "deCSS" variant efdtt.c source, 7-bit encrypted...
(Added: 8-Sep-2001 Hits: 930 Rating: 0 Votes: 0) Rate It
Prime Glossary's definition of illegal prime - A short definition with the first known examples
(Added: 17-Mar-2001 Hits: 1985 Rating: 10.00 Votes: 2) Rate It
The court order in question - This court order makes certain "devices" illegal, and these may include the numbers listed here.
(Added: 8-Sep-2001 Hits: 1113 Rating: 0 Votes: 0) Rate It
The world's first illegal prime number? A FAQ - Phil says "I've had a whole bunch of questions about the prime number from all kinds of directions, so I decided to condense them into a web page which contains my view on the whole affair."
(Added: 19-Mar-2001 Hits: 2624 Rating: 3.27 Votes: 11) Rate It

Related Topics

Search:
more options ...