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IP: February 02 Atlantic Monthly article - Losing the Code War
From: David Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Sat, 19 Jan 2002 19:28:41 -0500
Date: Sat, 19 Jan 2002 17:16:10 -0500 (EST) From: "P.J. Ponder" <ponder () freenet tlh fl us> To: <cryptography () wasabisystems com> The February issue of the magazine _The Atlantic Monthly_ has an article on page 33 entitled 'Losing the Code War' by Stephen Budiansky. This piece puts forth the notion that advances in modern general purpose computers have given the edge to code makers over code breakers, by allowing people to use harder encryption, eg with longer keys. The Atlantic's website (http://www.theatlantic.com) as of today lists the January issue as the current issue, so the article isn't online yet. There is a discussion of DES being cracked a few years ago, and the article also talks about one time pads, Enigma machines, the Scarfo case, the Clipper chip, and reported al Qaeda stego use. Definitely not a technical article, but it is interesting to see how the mainstream press deals with the concepts and facilities of crypto. --------------------------------------------------------------------- The Cryptography Mailing ListUnsubscribe by sending "unsubscribe cryptography" to majordomo () wasabisystems com
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