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Until then, you can do a few simple things to minimize the chances of someone sniffing your data. There are telnet programs available that encrypt your session (one example is SecureCRT, whose demo is available at www.tucows.com...
DIED. FRANK ROWLETT, 90, nimble-minded cryptographer who cracked a Japanese diplomatic code used to encrypt dispatches between Tokyo and Japan's ambassador in Berlin during World War II; in Gaithersburg, Md. One of the messages Rowlett and his team deciphered detailed German defenses against the anticipated Allied invasion of Berlin...
...registrar's office will send the data to the Science Center on a direct, secure line and will encrypt the information, meaning it will be scrambled and rendered unreadable without specific codes and proper decoding tools...
...there is a problem with this method. It is only effective when you write to those people to whom you've given keys. How do you give the key to someone? E-mail it to them. But e-mail isn't private unless you encrypt it. We've come full circle without accomplishing anything...
...What 'crack' does is to encrypt all the wordsin the dictionary and then match all the words tothe encrypted words. So if people use whole wordsfor passwords then it wouldn't be very had to findthe passwords and then gain access to people'saccounts," says Nina Yuan '94, who wrote herthesis on issues involving electronic security...