Re: Murder in the name of the rose

In article <4f4skiF1hf1tvU1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Jos=E9_Carlos_Santos?= <jcsantos@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
jt64@xxxxxxxx wrote:

Would any organisation other than religious murder to supress
mathematical information?
If so who and why?

I wouldn't exclude the possibility of a government murdering someone who
might be able to find a way to break their cryptographic codes.

If "the way" is the good old rubber hose cryptoanalysis[1], then
perhaps. But if "the way" means that someone found a way to break them
analytically (think Rejewski, Turing, et al with ENIGMA, or Friedman
et al with PURPLE), then I find it hard to believe. Mostly, because
such a murder would not make the system secure.

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Arturo Magidin
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[1] I.e., beating up someone who has the key in order to obtain the key.
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