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Article #889Re: "Sneakers" -- action/adventure movie about Cryptography
From: Wm. L. Ranck
Date: Thu, 03 Sep 1992 13:28
Date: Thu, 03 Sep 1992 13:28
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Andrew Haley (ahaley@eoe.co.uk) wrote: : : P.S. Aren't the actors in the movie a little old to be hackers? I think this is a good thing. After all, not everyone competent to use a computer is a 16-year-old "boy genius." That stereotype is getting *really* worn out. 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. But, it looked like a fun movie anyway. -- ******************************************************************************* * Bill Ranck DoD #496 ranck@joesbar.cc.vt.edu * *******************************************************************************
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!vtserf!ranck From: ranck@vtserf.cc.vt.edu (Wm. L. Ranck) Newsgroups: sci.crypt,comp.security.misc Subject: Re: "Sneakers" -- action/adventure movie about Cryptography Message-ID: <6395@vtserf.cc.vt.edu> Date: 3 Sep 92 13:28:28 GMT References: <1391@eouk18.eoe.co.uk> Sender: usenet@vtserf.cc.vt.edu Followup-To: sci.crypt Lines: 20 X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL5