To: devnull@onion.rain.com (Hitech Simulation Mailing list) From: devnull@onion.rain.com (Hitech Simulation Mailing list) Reply-To: devnull@onion.rain.com (Hitech Simulation Mailing list) Sender: devnull@onion.rain.com (Hitech Simulation Mailing list) Return-Path: devnull@onion.rain.com (Hitech Simulation Mailing list) Errors-To: postmaster@onion.rain.com Precedence: bulk Bcc: hitech-sim-out Subject: Hitech Simulation Digest V1 : I95 Hitech Simulation Digest Volume 1 : Issue 95 Tue Feb 1 07:22:49 PST 1994 Compilation copyright (C) 1994 Jeff Beadles Send submissions to "hitech-sim@onion.rain.com" Send add/drop requests to "majordomo@onion.rain.com" Archives are available via ftp from onion.rain.com [147.28.0.161] Today's Topics: Micro-Simulateur magazine bonnet@cr2a.fr (Christophe Bonnet) Tornado: pilot log files encrypted Heinz-Bernd Eggenstein (LS2) ... as you say 'I'm working' I guess > it means that the magazine Micro-Simulateur is still alive ! > It has been a long time know that I phone to the editor and he told me > that they stop the publication but might be reborn sometime. So > apparently it is coming back ! That would be great as it was the most > professional and totally dedicated to flight-sim of the games magazine. (OK, I will make a small advertisement here, Jeff, feel free to remove it if you find it too much commercial...) You're right Thierry. Micro-Simulateur is back ! (For all of you who are not French, Micro-Simulateur is a magazine specifically dedicated to personnal computers simulation software). The first issue of the new publication must be out before end of February. The first issue includes articles on Tornado, Tornado Desert Storm, TFX, FS5, .... I am currently writing papers on SH Mig29 & F18, winnings tactics and planning with SH EBS series and Tracon II compared to professionnal French Air Traffic Control simulators (I'm currently working on some of those 'real' simulators for the French Air Traffic Control (DGAC/CENA, DGAC/STNA))... Christophe "Rafale" Bonnet ------------------------------- From: Heinz-Bernd Eggenstein (LS2) Subject: Tornado: pilot log files encrypted Hi! The programmer who wrote Tornado's pilot log file interface must be a cryptography fan, because (s)he wants to give us a hard time to manipulate TORNADOs log files. Has anybody else tried to break the code? Although I see no application for it except perhaps promoting pilots (why? use Mr. deFault), resurrecting and cloning pilots (you can use backups instead), it's still a nice challenge. The 258 bytes log files basically contain 256 bytes of pilot data plus 2 bytes "signature" (the 257th byte is the sum modulo 256 of the preceeding 256 bytes, I'm not sure I already know what the 258th byte is about, maybe a seperate checksum over parts of the plaintext). The pilot's data is encoded by first changing the order of bits across the file (first all bits#0, then all bits #2 ...) and then XORing the result to a sequence of 256 pseudo-random bytes. Because a different sequence of bytes is used for different log files (0.log, 1.log ...), you cannot clone a pilot by just copying (say) 1.log to 2.log. However, it's quite easy to extract the different sequences for (say) the files (0.log ... 9.log). The question remains: Why was this data encoded in the first place? Have fun, Heinz-Bernd Eggenstein ------------------------------- From: Joerg Stenger Subject: Help! CIX - who has access? Hello, I read the following article in csipgf-s and I seem to remember that someone here on the list has CIX-access. If you have CIX-access, could you please drop me a mail? I talked to Jeff and it's ok if you would upload the files to onion:/pub/hitech-sim/incomming. Thanks in advance, Joerg "Dancer" Stenger stenger@zeus.uni-duisburg.de --- Begin included article --- >[...] >Anyway, I asked a friend who has a CIX account to have a rummage for >information on DID/TFX.. here's what he said.. > >--------------------------------------------------------- > >Brian, > >There is a cix 'did' conf, devoted to constructive :-) discussion of >did products. (BTW, cix conferences are not heirarchical >only two level, the conf itself, then a number of subtopics, one of >which is inevitably 'files'). > >Here's the flist: > >AG/ABGV Jan 19 18:46 94 >Filename Size Description >=============== ======== ================================================== > > >tfxwcs.zip 780 wcs version 1 configuration file (thanks jdally) >tfxtips.txt 2155 tips on TFX training missions >tfxtips2.txt 3177 general tip on TFX > >these patches change an installed version of TFX to use the >Rational Systems 1.95 dos extender, this will fix random crashes >which disappear when running under a windows dos box >tfxpat_1.zip 297533 TFX disk version patch >tfxcd_1.zip 213770 CD version of patch > >I get the impression that TFX is not quite perfect, but did seem >anxious to appease everyone, dropping hints abount further free >upgrades with possibilities of H2H options, serial/network modes, >revamped Marauders... (whatever that means), but have no plans >to distribute more widely than cix community. > >-------------------------------------------------------------------- > >I think some pressure should be placed on them to distribute the >patches more widely than CIX.. > >Brian >-- > >-- >Brian Syme, Systems Office, EMail: gxlr07@udcf.gla.ac.uk >Glasgow University Library. Phone: UK 041-339-8855 x6724 --- End included article --- ------------------------------- [[ End of digest Volume 1 : Issue 95 ]]