Re: New York teen-ager win $100,000 with encryption research(3/14/2000)

2000-03-16 Thread Ben Laurie
"Arnold G. Reinhold" wrote: At 7:39 PM -0800 3/14/2000, Eugene Leitl wrote: Of course it ain't actual encryption, only (high-payload) steganography at best. Now, if you sneak a message into a living critter (a pet ("the message is the medium"), or creating the ultimate self-propagating

New York teen-ager win $100,000 with encryption research (3/14/2000)

2000-03-15 Thread Eugene Leitl
Of course it ain't actual encryption, only (high-payload) steganography at best. Now, if you sneak a message into a living critter (a pet ("the message is the medium"), or creating the ultimate self-propagating chainletter, a pathogen), that would be an interesting twist. Interesting is that

Re: New York teen-ager win $100,000 with encryption research(3/14/2000)

2000-03-15 Thread Arnold G. Reinhold
At 7:39 PM -0800 3/14/2000, Eugene Leitl wrote: Of course it ain't actual encryption, only (high-payload) steganography at best. Now, if you sneak a message into a living critter (a pet ("the message is the medium"), or creating the ultimate self-propagating chainletter, a pathogen), that would

Re: New York teen-ager win $100,000 with encryption research(3/14/2000)

2000-03-15 Thread Eugene Leitl
Arnold G. Reinhold writes: If you know the DNA sequences of alphabet letters, you can PCR probe for common words or word fragments like "the" or "ing" and avoid total sequencing. That's true. Luckily, there is no such test for random base sequences, though a pseudorandom sequence would