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DNA Stego
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ben Laurie)
Mon Jun 14 11:44:24 1999
Date: Sat, 12 Jun 1999 12:59:00 +0100
From: Ben Laurie <ben@algroup.co.uk>
To: cryptography@c2.net
I found the original article, which wasn't referenced, AFAIR. It appears
here: CATHERINE TAYLOR CLELLAND et al: Hiding messages in DNA microdots
Nature 399, 533-534 (1999) Scientific Correspondence.
These guys may know about DNA, but they don't know much about crypto! To
quote: "Encryption is not of primary importance in steganography, so we
can use a simple substution cipher[1]...". Well, it may have been true
when [1] was written (though I doubt it), but it certainly isn't now!
And what is the tome in question? Yep, the fantastically modern: Kahn,
D. "The Codebreakers" (Scribner, New York, 1996).
The article is available at
http://www.nature.com/server-java/Propub/nature/399533A0.frameset?context=toc
Cheers,
Ben.
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