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Science 1 November 1996:
Vol. 274. no. 5288, pp. 716 - 717
DOI: 10.1126/science.274.5288.716
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News & Comment

Charles Seife

The computer security systems that lock up messages in supposedly unreadable code are taking hit after hit. In the past year, a security consultant found a sneaky way to read "secure" public-key messages, and a team of researchers showed how to unravel entire public-key encryption systems. In the latest attack, a cryptographer has cracked tough secret-key systems including the Data Encryption Standard, widely used in credit card verification and automated teller machines.

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