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Re: New York teen-ager win $100,000 with encryption research(3/14/2000)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ben Laurie)
Wed Mar 15 19:54:39 2000
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Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2000 18:37:22 +0000
From: Ben Laurie <ben@algroup.co.uk>
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To: Bill Stewart <bill.stewart@pobox.com>
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Bill Stewart wrote:
>
> At 08:27 AM 03/14/2000 -0800, David G. Koontz wrote:
> >http://www.sjmercury.com/svtech/news/breaking/merc/docs/013955.htm
>
> ========
> 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.
Hmmm ... I sent a reference to these lists a year or so ago to an
article in Nature about stashing messages in DNA - the crypto was
nonexistent there (which I felt meant that attacks where possible).
Cheers,
Ben.
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