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Re: New York teen-ager win $100,000 with encryption research
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bill Stewart)
Wed Mar 15 09:12:45 2000
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Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2000 23:39:26 -0800
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From: Bill Stewart <bill.stewart@pobox.com>
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At 08:27 AM 03/14/2000 -0800, David G. Koontz wrote:
>http://www.sjmercury.com/svtech/news/breaking/merc/docs/013955.htm
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My reply to a similar article in slashdot is at
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=00/03/14/1924204&cid=39
Here's the first paragraph, and some of the other respondents had
good commentary:
> I don't know how much of this is the reporting,
> either by the judges or the press, vs. how much is the
> winner's understanding of the technology involved
> (it sounds like it's her mistake, and the judges didn't understand it.)
> The idea of stashing messages in DNA is cool,
> and doing the actual work to build it is definitely cool stuff
> for a high-school student. But the crypto isn't correct.
Thanks!
Bill
Bill Stewart, bill.stewart@pobox.com
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