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This page is to note news items related to cryptography that have the potential to be added to various articles in order to keep things up-to-date.

Time: 19:34 UTC | Date: April 21

June 15, 2004

Analysis of alleged US cryptanalysis

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

Impressively sane BBC News article discussing the recent claims about the US breaking Iranian ciphers, which includes discussion from Ross Anderson, Fred Piper and Simon Singh, suggesting it was unlikely to be pure cryptanalysis. Great quote from Anderson: "As the former chief scientist of the NSA once remarked at one of our security workshops, almost all breaks of cipher systems are due to implementation errors, operational failures, burglary, blackmail and bribery. As for cryptanalysis, it happens, but very much less often than most people think."

Potential to add information to: Ahmed Chalabi, NSA, Cryptanalysis

— Matt 01:20, 15 Jun 2004 (UTC)