[ELECTRON] Idle speculation about music and compression files

[Ian Bitmap]

oops, just noticed you were looking to make an uncompressable file (doh) try
making a recording of a 20hz or 22000hz wave, compression will struggle with
it, but i doubt you'd be able to hear it either...

On 2 April 2010 13:59, Ian Bitmap <bitmap303 at googlemail.com> wrote:

> Thanks for getting back Chris - I've been using PCs and the web pretty much
> since the old BBS days, when PGP was the tool of mafia/pedos and spies, but
> I guess it's much more widely used now. Personally, these days my email/IM
> traffic consists of youtube and facebook posts, but I'll look into the
> various PGP flavours you mentioned should I be sending anything i'd prefer
> to remain private.
>
> With regard to your compression question, flac compression is the only
> lossless codec I'm aware of, though adjustments to the ogg vorbis or mp3
> settings can produce files which lack any obvious siblants or artifacts.
>
>
> On 2 April 2010 13:23, chris <chris-h at diskant.net> wrote:
>
>> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
>> Hash: SHA1
>>
>> Ian Bitmap wrote:
>> > Hey Chris,
>> > If you don't mind me asking, my you using PGP to encrypt emails? Aren't
>> > you risking prosecution?
>>
>> Not so far as I know. While there are too many stinky laws around
>> encryption, they don't effect me.
>>
>> Nobody official has ever asked me to decrypt a message, so that's the
>> Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act (RIPA) out.
>>
>> The encryption itself, AFAIK hasn't been considered as a non-exportable
>> military secret by the USA since the late 90s. And I believe that the Free
>> software implementation GnuPG was developed in Germany to get around that
>> in the 1st place.
>>
>> Basically, what Marion said. Everyone should use it, if only for the
>> childish nerdy thrill of watching incomprehensible gibberish turn into a
>> message only you can read.
>>
>> What with the UK government's "Mastering the Internet" plans (hubristic
>> though they may be), now's the time to get in on the fun.
>>
>> Thunderbird email client: getthunderbird.com
>> with the "Enigmail" add-in
>> and appropriate GnuPG version from gnupg.org
>> ....makes it remarkably easy to set up.
>>
>> The social part of key generation / checking is a wee bit more
>> complicated,
>> but I'm happy to chat to anyone about it.
>>
>> There's also FireGPG addin for Firefox if you use webmail, and OTR
>> (OffTheRecord) plugins for Instant Messaging clients lke Pidgin - some of
>> those are very easy to use.
>>
>> (Was going to run a workshop on this in fact, before I left Glasgow. If
>> there's interest enough, I could come through to do so)
>>
>> - --
>> chris h
>>
>> The strange characters below this message are a digital signature.
>> http://www.gnupg.org to encrypt / verify your emails.
>>
>>
>> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
>> Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux)
>> Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org
>>
>> iEYEARECAAYFAku14cgACgkQrk7gpnTYWdwgVwCgq072IripxrR55m4nEYaWgfAK
>> +BUAnjboqzdIdPZhk5IU15LKgNjCNIwv
>> =HTul
>> -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
>>
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