Interview With Cryptographer Elonka Dunin

An anonymous reader writes "Whitedust is running a very interesting article with the DEF CON speaker and cryptographer Elonka Dunin. The article covers her career and specifically her involvement with the CIA and other US Military agencies."

Comments

Re:So

[Tackhead]

> is quantum cryptography being persued in the military?

Yes and no.

Elonka

[HackHackBoom]

I had the pleasure of working with Elonka through her primary employer, Simutronics for a few months... She's brilliant and I think her work in cryptography as it relates to the subject matter of this article is top notch.

Background info

[yppiz]

There's also a pretty good Wikipedia entry for her.

--Pat

Re:Background info

[MrNougat]

And here's her Wikipedia user page, and her own website.

Potential Problem

[nmccart]

Quantum cryptography is neat, to be sure, but what happens if the cat dies?

Re:Potential Problem

[pegr]

Quantum cryptography is neat, to be sure, but what happens if the cat dies?

 
As long as you don't look, no problem!

Re:So

[Daniel Dvorkin]

Only the cat knows, and if you ask, it might kill him.

Re:Very cool person ;)

[dr_dank]

Were any of the DC geeks trying to pull that cheesy yawning-arm-stretch maneuver on Elonka Dunin at the movie?

The Corporation

[Doc Ruby]

The CIA is not supposed to be a "military agency". It was originally supposed to be an assassination agency supporting US military overthrow of enemy governments during WWII, when it was the "Office of Special Services". When it was converted to the CIA, its postwar role was supposed to be foreign intelligence gathering, with domestic operations confined to centrally processing government intelligence information. None of its operations are supposed to be military, as in tactical violence against strategic targets to support government policies.

The CIA is not supposed to trade guns for cocaine or peddle them in the US, or work with the mafia to fund operations secret from Congress, either.

In our midst

[Anonymous Coward]

Not only is she featured on Slashdot. She's also a member.

Re:In our midst

[Elonka]

Ten to one says that the "anonymous reader" who submitted the article is none other than Elonka herself.

I'll take that bet. ;) Wasn't me, and I didn't even know that the Whitedust interview had been posted, until the Simutronics CEO (David Whatley, another slashdotter) IMed me and said, "You are about to be slashdotted" (and no, it wasn't him either). A couple minutes after that, a bunch of other IMs flew in with similar warnings to batten down the web-server, and I've been dealing with the related deluge for the rest of the day. As slashdottings go though, it's been relatively light (only about 5000 visitors), probably because the Whitedust folks didn't actually put any links to my website in their interview. The traffic has been coming in from the secondary links in the /. thread, from my Wikipedia bio, and from Google.

If I would have started the thread, you can be sure I would have linked it better, to my site, my company, and my upcoming book. ;) My guess is it was posted by someone from Whitedust.

Elonka :)

Nope

[hey!]

Nobody names their kid "Elonka". I suspect if you decode E-L-O-N-K-A-D-U-N-I-N correctly that you'll find out her real name is Xenia Onatop or Alotta Fagina or something like that.

More probably her real name is "LEONA UNKIND". Or, since this is Slashdot and sooner or later the question "hotness" comes up when any woman is discussed, you might want to click "ON A NUDE LINK", and hope you don't get "A NODE UNLINK", or if she's feeling a bit waspish you may be in for "A DUNK ONLINE".