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In article <b1nn#rn.nagle@netcom.com> nagle@netcom.com (John Nagle) writes:
>karn@qualcom.qualcomm.com (Phil Karn) writes:
>
>>In article <6395@vtserf.cc.vt.edu>, ranck@vtserf.cc.vt.edu (Wm. L. Ranck) writes:
>>|>    I saw a preview of "Sneakers" when I was at the movies about a week ago.
>>|> In a couple of scenes they showed groups of letters on a screen rapidly
>>|> changing (sort of like a slot machine) and resolving into words.  Now this
>>|> bothered me.  The space characters were already in place!  In other words
>>|> it was obvious from the cyphertext what the length of each word was.
>>|> Pretty poor encryption scheme that.
>
>>It sounds like that scene was written by the same guy who did the
>>climax of "War Games". Remember how the computer (Joshua?) cracked the
>>missile launch code ONE CHARACTER AT A TIME?
>
>      The idea probably came from one of the early Bond movies, where
>Bond uses a suitcase-sized (this is a '60s movie) safe-opening machine
>which worked that way.  
>
>					John Nagle



I'm pretty sure the script of Sneakers was written by the same two
screen writers who wrote War Games. They came to a CPSR meeting
in Palo Alto ages ago, asked for technical advice and outlined
the plot...Hope its more technically accurate...