"Unbreakable Crypto" announcement??

[Chip Mefford]

On Mon, 24 Aug 1998, Fade wrote:

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> Does anyone with access to the Financial Times know what the hell this
> snippet is talking about??
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> ENCRYPTION BREAKTHROUGH ANNOUNCED TODAY
> August 24, 1998
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>      According to the Financial Times a new "unbreakable" encryption
> technology, called the "Cramer-Shoup cryptosystem," will be annouced today

check out http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~shoup/papers/

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