Proves the adage once again that, no matter how smart you are, there is
always someone smarter - or bigger, stronger, richer, prettier, and so on.
Methinks the new millennium will bring more and more power to the little
people of this ilk. Good one Brian!
-----Original Message-----
From: Brian Jenkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Bill Kerr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Amy Louise Thomas
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; David Brooks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: Public Neither list <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Saturday, 27 February 1999 2:06 PM
Subject: Re: European Union and FBI launch global surveillance system!!
>I found this interesting source of encryption/security yarns
>http://www.kids-o-rama.com/quicklinks/crypto.htm
>
>Here is one of the stories published by the BBC (with a heap of others) at:
>http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_254000/254236.stm
>
>Sci/Tech
>January 13, 1999
>
>Teenager's email code is a cracker
>
>The prize judges could not completely understand the "brilliant" code
>
>Making your email secret is now 30 times faster, but the innovation has
come
>not from a multinational computer [company] but a schoolgirl from Blarney,
>Ireland.
>
>Sarah Flannery, 16, has developed a brand new mathematical procedure for
>encrypting internet communication.
>
>"It is a public-key algorithm and is based on matrices," her father told
BBC
>News Online. Dr David Flannery is a mathematics lecturer at Cork Institute
>of Technology, Ireland.
>
>"Sarah has a very good understanding of the mathematical principles
>involved, but to call her a genius or a prodigy is overstated and she
>doesn't want that herself.
>
>Encryption technology codes internet messages to keep email and online
>commerce secure.
>
>_International job offers_
>
>But her number-crunching feat is undoubtedly remarkable and won her the top
>prize at the Irish Young Scientists and Technology Exhibition. She did a
>period of work experience with Baltimore Technologies last April. And her
>cryptography skills also took her to Fort Worth, Texas, as the winner of an
>Intel prize. International job and scholarship offers have since flooded
in,
>said Dr Flannery.
>
>Even when high security levels are required, her code can encrypt a letter
>in just one minute - a widely used encryption standard called RSA would
take
>30 minutes. "But she has also proven that her code is as secure as RSA,"
>says Dr Flannery. "It wouldn't be worth a hat of straw if it was not."
>
>Ms Flannery currently has a bad cold and has not had time to consider the
>advice of the judges to patent the code. "She wouldn't mind being rich but
>she wants to stress the great joy that the project has given her," says Dr
>Flannery. She may publish the work to make it freely available to all.
>
>Her code is called Cayley-Purser after Arthur Cayley, a 19th century
>Cambridge expert on matrices, and Michael Purser, a cryptographer from
>Trinity College, Dublin, who provided inspiration for Ms Flannery.
>
>* * * * * * *
>Bill Kerr wrote on 26 February 1999 14:57
>
>
>|re encryption: another reason Government doesn't like it is that it opens
>|the possibility for a tax free global black market
>|(Tim May, crypto anarchy, digital money, anonymous networks, digital
>|pseudonames, black markets, collapse of government)
>
>
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