Fwd: [IP] Re: The emerging science of DNA cryptography

[R.A. Hettinga]

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> From: David Farber <dave at farber.net>
> Date: March 20, 2009 9:27:32 AM GMT-04:00
> To: "ip" <ip at v2.listbox.com>
> Subject: [IP] Re:  The emerging science of DNA cryptography
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> From: Ted Nelson <tandm at xanadu.net>
> Date: March 20, 2009 4:52:31 AM EDT
> To: dave at farber.net
> Cc: Ted Nelson <tandm at xanadu.net>
> Subject: Re: [IP] Re: The emerging science of DNA cryptography
> Reply-To: tandm at xanadu.net
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> Better be well-contained.  There's no knowing
>  what infectious agents might be generated
>  accidentally.  Get a few drops of this in your
>  bloodstream and one of the coded messages
>  might be a new plague, which you pass on to
>  others before it kills you.  (Even if the message
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> Ted
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> On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 8:47 PM, David Farber <dave at farber.net> wrote:
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> From: dewayne at warpspeed.com (Dewayne Hendricks)
> Date: March 18, 2009 11:19:49 AM EDT
> To: Dewayne-Net Technology List <xyzzy at warpspeed.com>
> Subject: [Dewayne-Net] The emerging science of DNA cryptography
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> The emerging science of DNA cryptography
> If DNA computing can be used to break codes, then the machinery of  
> life can be exploited to encrypt data too
> Wednesday, March 18, 2009
> <http://www.technologyreview.com/blog/arxiv/23167/>
> Molecular biologists have long thought of DNA as an information  
> storage device. The body processes this information with an  
> impressive array of computing machinery which, since the 1990s,  
> we've exploited to carry out a few of our own calculations.
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> DNA computing may not be fast but it is massively parallel. With the  
> right kind of setup, it has the potential to solve huge mathematical  
> problems. It's hardly surprising then, that DNA computing represents  
> a serious threat to various powerful encryption schemes such as the  
> Data Encryption Standard (DES).
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> But if DNA can be used to break codes then it can also be exploited  
> to encrypt data. Various groups have suggested using the sequence of  
> nucleotides in DNA (A for 00, C for 01, G for 10, T for 11) for just  
> this purpose. One idea is to not even bother encrypting the  
> information but simply burying it in the DNA so it is well hidden, a  
> technique called DNA steganography.
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