At 11:25 PM 10/1/02 -0400, R. A. Hettinga wrote: > >I'm at a speech by Terry Essex, CTO of Essex Corp. He worked on optical >computing at the NSA for a long time. > >"the first computer to crack enigma was optical"
In one of the historical books about crypto, there's a method described involving punching hollerith cards, stacking them, and looking through the stack for shared holes. That would be a parallel optical NAND gate. (And Java compatible if you wipe up fast enough.) --------------------------------------------------------------------- The Cryptography Mailing List Unsubscribe by sending "unsubscribe cryptography" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
