[E3-hacking] PBL 5.1

[Antony Stone]

On Friday 05 April 2019 at 12:00:49, Ed Robbins wrote:

> What's interesting is in the mail from Cliff mentioned below, he says that
> the signature is SHA256 and the key is the first two or three sentences of
> the King James Bible ("In the beginning was the word" - so start of John),

> On Wed, 17 Oct 2012 at 13:58, Edward Robbins wrote:
> > 
> > I emailed Cliff Lawson (thanks for the contact Ralph) and he does indeed
> > seem willing to help. He gave me some information about how the images are
> > signed in PBL 5.1! He says:
> > 
> > "all I can tell you is that the signature I added uses SHA256 and the
> > key is the first two or three sentences of the King James Bible ("In
> > the beginning was the word...").
> > ...

What puzzles me about this is that these are the first few words of the Book of 
John, but why would he call this "the first two or three sentences of the King 
James Bible"?  It doesn't start with John.

The Old Testament starts with Genesis, and I wonder whether Cliff's memory 
tricked him into thinking it was the start of John, but is in fact "In the 
beginning God created the heaven and the earth.  And the earth was without 
form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of 
God moved upon the face of the waters.  And God said, Let there be light: and 
there was light....."

Maybe my theology lets me down, but why would anyone consider the Book of John 
to be the start of the Bible?


Antony.

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