Cryptography
New York Times: The Key Vanishes: Scientist Outlines Unbreakable Code.
“A computer science professor at Harvard says he has found a way to send coded messages that cannot be deciphered, even by an all-powerful adversary with unlimited computing power. And, he says, he can prove it.
If he is right, and he does have some supporters, his code may be the first that is both practical and provably secure. While there are commercially available coding systems that seem very hard to break, no one can prove that they cannot be cracked, mathematicians say.”
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Hey Al, I like your new photo! I also enjoyed your picture gallery. I’ve never peeked ‘behind the curtain’ in a hospital, and I’ve never been in an intensive care room.
Glad you liked it, Andrea. Of course, I’ll probably have to wait until I crump before I can take pictures of what the place looks like with a person in the bed, and with the tubes and wires running in and out of them.
I’ll keep you posted.
Of course, I’ll probably have to wait until I crump before I can take pictures of what the place looks like with a person in the bed, and with the tubes and wires running in and out of them.
Gosh, Al, I really hope you don’t end up in a bed like this yourself. I really prefer upside-down photos of you instead of in-bed-and-with-tubes-everywhere ones!
Anyway, you look quite fit in your new picture so I guess this is not very likely to happen. I hope!