[Cryptography] RIP Claude Shannon

Dave Horsfall dave at horsfall.org
Tue Feb 23 12:04:35 EST 2016


Claude Shannon was lost to us on this day in 2001; he is regarded as the 
father of information theory, viz: given a noisy comms channel then there 
are this many bits that you can squeeze through it at most.  He also did 
top-secret crypto work in WW2.

-- 
Dave Horsfall DTM (VK2KFU)  "Those who don't understand security will suffer."


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