> > Even the securest encryptions are hackable. Look at the contest that was in "The Code Book", for example. Its final code was in RSA, the securest of all known encryption methods, yet a team of four or five determined solvers cracked it in just over a year's time.
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> What are the chances of that? I've never heard of "The Code Book" before, and now, just after reading this, I find that the author is giving a lecture at my university. It should be fun, and I may post my notes up here, if anyone's interested.
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> Tub"He wrote Fermat's Last Theorem, too. But he had a massive margin"ba

Heh, cool. I'd never read anything by him except "The Code Book" but I really enjoyed it. If you're remotely interested in cryptography (both the theory and history) it's a great book and extremely readable. And yeah, I'd dig your notes.

Stephen