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It began 25 years ago in the warm coastal waters of Puerto Rico when a stranger swam over to Gilles Brassard and struck up a conversation about using quantum physics to make bank notes impossible to counterfeit. "I had no idea who he was," recalled Brassard, then a 24-year-old prodigy and computer-science professor at the Universite de Montreal. "He just started talking nonsense about quantum physics." . The stranger turned out to be U.S. physicist Charles H. Bennett. Their chance meeting while attending a theoretical computer science conference would end up revolutionizing the art of code making, also known as cryptography. The link for this article located at Canada.com is no longer available. . The stranger turned out to be U.S. physicist Charles H. Bennett. Their chance meeting while attendin. began, years, coastal, waters, puerto, stranger, gilles. . LinuxSecurity.com Team
Leo Marks, WWII codemaker and codebreaker, and later playwright, has died aged 80. He was chief cryptographer of Special Operations Executive during WWII, having trained as a cryptographer in Bedford when called up for National Service. . . .. Leo Marks, WWII codemaker and codebreaker, and later playwright, has died aged 80. He was chief cryptographer of Special Operations Executive during WWII, having trained as a cryptographer in Bedford when called up for National Service. During his training, The Telegraph reports, he cracked a code that was supposed to be a week-long group project, in an evening. This earned him the label "misfit" and got him sent to the Special Operations Executive, rather than Bletchley Park. One of his achievements during the war was to refine the "one-time-pad." He printed ciphers on silk squares so agents could carry the information more easily across borders. He also stopped the use of well known poems as code keys, replacing them with original works he wrote himself, massively tightening security. Later in the war he was in charge of devising encryption systems for the SAS and the Free French, among others. The link for this article located at TheRegister is no longer available. . Alan Shields, renowned Cold War analyst and spy master, has passed away at 85, honored for his influence on intelligence operations.. Leo Marks, WWII Codebreaker, Intelligence Encryption, Cryptography History. . LinuxSecurity.com Team
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