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A933978 - A Study of the Applications, Benefits and Necessity of Cryptography in Modern Communication
Dogster Posted Apr 9, 2003
Maybe you could put in something about steganography (which apparently started with the Greeks writing on the wooden board underneath the wax in which the apparent message was written, but nowadays involves embedding messages in pictures, music, and so on)? It's not exactly crypto although it's usually combined with crypto.
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Zak T Duck Posted May 9, 2003
Excellent entry! How's this coming along?
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Matthew G P Coe Posted May 9, 2003
Actually, I haven't had much time to clean it up over the past four weeks; school assignments, contracts, moving house, etc. Believe me, once my life calms down a bit (~nine days), I should have some time to dedicate back to this entry.
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Matthew G P Coe Posted May 28, 2003
Hey cool, I finally finished it -- I think. I decided to not mention steganography as it's really not cryptography and it's not used all that much, really. I added links to all the references sites and a purchase link to Amazon.com for the book I used. Anything else necessary?
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Zak T Duck Posted May 28, 2003
Hmm, not sure about the link to Amazon as it's a commercial link and not really in line with Aunty Beeb's policy on advertising. Is there a link to either the Author's website or the publisher's writeup about the book you could use instead?
I've also been thinking, would in your opinion mentioning the open source and ever increasingly popular Blowfish Encryption Algorithm benefit this entry?
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Z Posted May 28, 2003
I just dropped around to say - great entry
(an smilie we need to use more)!
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Matthew G P Coe Posted May 28, 2003
Yeah, I found Steven Levy's personal site. I'll link to that instead.
Hmm.... Blowfish and OSS... I assume Blowfish is a totally open encryption standard, then? I might look that up.
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Matthew G P Coe Posted May 30, 2003
I'm thinking this might be fodder for the Writing Workshop... I'm considering retooling the entire entry because it is a little clunky to read in Brunel, now that I look back at it. Good idea? Bad idea? Any opinions?
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Zak T Duck Posted Jun 5, 2003
If you do want to split the entry in two you could rework it into an entry on the history of cryptography and another on the methods. However, in my opinion it's not really necessary as it seems to read right to me and could be left to the discretion of the sub-ed.
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Matthew G P Coe Posted Jun 6, 2003
Well, I'm not necessarily thinking about splitting the entry, just redoing the style. It just feels awkward to me now.
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Zarquon's Singing Fish! Posted Jun 17, 2003
Let us know when you've finished, jargonCCNA! 
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Sam Posted Jun 23, 2003
This has got the makings of a cracker, jargonCCNA! Good luck with the tweaks and let us know when it's ready.
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Otto Fisch ("Stop analysing Strava.... and cut your hedge") Posted Jun 28, 2003
Er... yeah. What Sam said!
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Cyzaki Posted Aug 14, 2003
Are you still working on this?
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Matthew G P Coe Posted Aug 15, 2003
Yeah, I just haven't had a great deal of time to lately... -thinks- Hopefully by September.
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Elentari Posted Aug 15, 2003
I think this is an excellent entry! I read the novel Enigma by (I believe) Robert Harris, on holiday and found it very interesting, which was why I decided to read this entry!
Anyway, just one point - why is the entry indented so much? It makes it much longer than it needs to be and by the time you get to the bottom it's all squeezed into the middle. Just a thought.
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Matthew G P Coe Posted Aug 24, 2003
That's precisely the problem that I've been trying to find the time to fix!
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Elentari Posted Aug 24, 2003
I see, sorry! Good luck! 
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Cyzaki Posted Aug 24, 2003
You've put around most of the entry, which is why it's so indented.
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Matthew G P Coe Posted Aug 24, 2003
I had subsections within subsections within subsections; I thought it was the "best" way to do things... I guess not! -laughs-
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- 24: Matthew G P Coe (May 28, 2003)
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- 28: Matthew G P Coe (May 30, 2003)
- 29: Zak T Duck (Jun 5, 2003)
- 30: Matthew G P Coe (Jun 6, 2003)
- 31: Zarquon's Singing Fish! (Jun 17, 2003)
- 32: Sam (Jun 23, 2003)
- 33: Otto Fisch ("Stop analysing Strava.... and cut your hedge") (Jun 28, 2003)
- 34: Cyzaki (Aug 14, 2003)
- 35: Matthew G P Coe (Aug 15, 2003)
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