Quoting:
It was one of the most iconic and heart-stopping movie images of
2003: the Columbia Space Shuttle ignited, burning and crashing to
earth in fragments.
Now, amazingly, data from a hard drive recovered from the fragments
has been used to complete a physics experiment -
During the 1980's and 1990's crypto wars, an occasional topic of
speculation was
just how much the NSA was ahead of the open/public/academic
cryptography research
community in cryptanalysis and cipher design. We wondered (and still
wonder)
whether the NSA was merely a strong center of
