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Intro to Encryption
An anonymous reader submitted a Techworld story which is a sort of encryption primer. The difference between codes & cyphers, and what all those acronyms like RSA and DES actually mean. This is good primer material for newbs, and a good refresher for fogeys.
Let's say you are 8 years old and you know next to nothing about computing in general and the word 'encryption' piqued your interest. It is at this point that I would guide you to this so-called "primer". WTF do the editors do all day? You submit a well-written story with lots of information attached and you get rejected. You submit an 8 year old's intro to cryptography (i.e. "How to play Celebrity Cypher in your newspaper") and it makes front page. I hope those guys aren't paid to edit.
Oh my, that is such a predictable geeky statement that it isn't even funny. What happened to Slashdot?
Simple, because you failed to include at least one of the following in your post:
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