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From: plw@panda.UUCP (Pete Williamson)
Newsgroups: net.crypt
Subject: If Hitler had RSA !!
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Date: Fri, 14-Mar-86 10:31:57 EST
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Posted: Fri Mar 14 10:31:57 1986
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>        Suppose, heaven forbid, WWIII should break out.
>Speculate on the role of cryptography in such a conflict.
>Would each side be able to keep its most secret secrets secret
>by using "unbreakable" codes? How would the Yanks try to
>break such codes? What if the Russki's knocked out Fort Mead?
>Could they? Can/would the allies be trusted? Would it be over
>so fast that it wouldn't even matter? Start slinging...

With today's Nuclear weaponry, I would think that it would be
over before anybody knew what happened.

However, perhaps a MORE INTERESTING question would be:
What would the role of cryptography HAVE BEEN in the Second World War
with TODAY'S state of the art in computer software and hardware and
mathematics.

WHAT IF HITLER HAD CRAY COMPUTERS AND RSA ALGORITHMS AND FIELD AGENTS
WITH IBM-PCs HOOKED UP TO MODEMS et al !!!

How about it, NETLAND.  Care to speculate??
-- 
						Pete Williamson
"By hook or by crook, we will !!" ... #2