At 08:27 AM 03/14/2000 -0800, David G. Koontz wrote: >http://www.sjmercury.com/svtech/news/breaking/merc/docs/013955.htm ======== My reply to a similar article in slashdot is at http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=00/03/14/1924204&cid=39 Here's the first paragraph, and some of the other respondents had good commentary: > 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. Thanks! Bill Bill Stewart, [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Fingerprint D454 E202 CBC8 40BF 3C85 B884 0ABE 4639
