IP: February 02 Atlantic Monthly article - Losing the Code War

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

> Date: Sat, 19 Jan 2002 17:16:10 -0500 (EST)
> From: "P.J. Ponder" <ponder () freenet tlh fl us>
> To: <cryptography () wasabisystems com>
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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