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- From: karn@qualcom.qualcomm.com (Phil Karn)
- Subject: Re: "Sneakers" -- action/adventure movie about Cryptography
- Message-ID: <1992Sep4.205842.12303@qualcomm.com>
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- Date: Fri, 4 Sep 1992 20:58:42 GMT
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- 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.
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- 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?
-
- I wish I could find a bank with a vault whose combination lock worked
- that way.
-
- Phil
-