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- From: ranck@vtserf.cc.vt.edu (Wm. L. Ranck)
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- Subject: Re: "Sneakers" -- action/adventure movie about Cryptography
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- Date: 3 Sep 92 13:28:28 GMT
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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.
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- * Bill Ranck DoD #496 ranck@joesbar.cc.vt.edu *
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