Re: Cryptanalysis

There are very good reasons to say little about "conventional cryptanalysis": it just doesn't matter much with modern ciphers, such as public key systems. Modern ciphers don't fall to conventional attacks based on word frequency, pattern analysis, etc.

I disagree with this, and think that in the next 10-25 years we will find that most of the systems we are using today were as easily broken as the systems of yester-year (Enigma, Japanese Codes ,etc).