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Article #922Re: "Sneakers" -- action/adventure movie about Cryptography
From: Bill Sommerfeld
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1992 18:21
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1992 18:21
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In article <1992Sep10.034159.1617@qiclab.scn.rain.com> leonard@qiclab.scn.rain.com (Leonard Erickson) writes: I know of no *decent* lock that behaves this way. Well, it depends on how you define "decent"... Just about any mechanical key-based lock has a problem along these lines (due to the limits of manufacturing tolerances) which turns an O(x**y) problem into an O(x*y); it's just a matter of what equipment is necessary to exploit it. This is getting a bit far afield for sci.crypt; note the followup-to here. - Bill
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Newsgroups: sci.crypt,alt.security Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!caen!sdd.hp.com!apollo.hp.com!netnews From: sommerfeld@apollo.hp.com (Bill Sommerfeld) Subject: Re: "Sneakers" -- action/adventure movie about Cryptography Sender: usenet@apollo.hp.com (Usenet News) Message-ID: <SOMMERFELD.92Sep10142214@gourmet.apollo.hp.com> In-Reply-To: leonard@qiclab.scn.rain.com's message of 10 Sep 92 03:41:59 GMT Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1992 18:21:21 GMT Lines: 15 References: <1391@eouk18.eoe.co.uk> <6395@vtserf.cc.vt.edu> <1992Sep4.205842.12303@qualcomm.com> <1992Sep10.034159.1617@qiclab.scn.rain.com> Nntp-Posting-Host: gourmet.ch.apollo.hp.com Organization: Hewlett Packard Followup-To: alt.security