17 Dec
2003
17 Dec
'03
11:17 p.m.
Been reading our Tom Clancey, have we? <grin>
No, actually I have yet to read my first Clancey novel, though I did see Hunt for Red October. My information comes from "US Nuclear Weapons" by Chuck Hansen, Orion Books, 1988. ISBN 0-517-56740-7. I wouldn't be surprised if Clancey used the same source -- Hansen is the guy who wrote the open letter that sabotaged the government's case in US vs. Progressive back in 1979. Now can we return to cryptography? How about a discussion of fast modular exponentiation algorithms, something we (or at least I) can put to more immediate and constructive use than nuclear bomb designs? Phil