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RE: New York teen-ager win $100,000 with encryption research(3/14
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Trei, Peter)
Wed Mar 15 19:54:39 2000
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From: "Trei, Peter" <ptrei@rsasecurity.com>
To: "'Ben Laurie'" <ben@algroup.co.uk>, Bill Stewart <bill.stewart@pobox.com>
Cc: cypherpunks@cyberpass.net, cryptography@c2.net
Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2000 14:30:36 -0500
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ben Laurie [mailto:ben@algroup.co.uk]
> 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
> > > 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.
Well over a decade ago, I remember some of the early work on
genetic engineering including copyright notices in the
included DNA. This is old stuff.
Peter Trei
(a biochemist from way back)
