BBC story on Iran codes

[Perry E. Metzger]

  Breaking codes: An impossible task?

  By Paul Reynolds
  BBC News Online world affairs correspondent

  Recent reports that the United States had broken codes used by the
  Iranian intelligence service have intrigued experts on cryptology
  because a modern cipher should be unbreakable. 

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/3804895.stm

No real new info, but some good background. Several familiar names,
such as Ross Anderson, are interviewed.

[Note: I found out about the article from Eric Rescorla's blog.]

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Perry E. Metzger		perry at piermont.com

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