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To: d:oug who wrote (13465)	1/14/2001 5:50:16 AM
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(off topic) Would Edgar Allan Poe need a Chuca Decoder Ring? We shall never know but the safe money is that he would have. January 14, 2001 SUNDAY BOOK REVIEW Decoder Ring: How a Ragged Band Broke the Government's Hold on Cryptography By SCOTT MCLEMEE CRYPTO How the Code Rebels Beat the Government -- Saving Privacy in the Digital Age. By Steven Levy. 356 pp. New York: BOOK EXCERPT "[Unlike his peers, Whitfield] Diffie believed that... nytimes.com ... late 1839, Edgar Allan Poe invited the readers of a Philadelphia newspaper to submit messages written in code, which he would then break. He later explained his methods in the short story "The Gold Bug." The public response was overwhelming. Over the next few months, Poe demonstrated his analytical gifts by cracking the codes one by one... "... is not quite an easy thing," Poe wrote, "to invent a method of secret writing which shall baffle investigation..." "Human ingenuity cannot concoct a cipher which human ingenuity cannot resolve." ... there is a long chapter on Poe in the top-secret internal history of the National Security Agency. Little wonder: he was, in a sense, the agency's founding father. Or perhaps its nemesis. After all, Poe was making cryptography available to the public... Copyright 2001 The New York Times Company