> -----Original Message----- > From: Ben Laurie [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Bill Stewart wrote: > > > > At 08:27 AM 03/14/2000 -0800, David G. Koontz wrote: > > >http://www.sjmercury.com/svtech/news/breaking/merc/docs/013955.htm > > > I don't know how much of this is the reporting, > > > either by the judges or the press, vs. how much is the > > > winner's understanding of the technology involved > > > (it sounds like it's her mistake, and the judges didn't understand it.) > > > The idea of stashing messages in DNA is cool, > > > and doing the actual work to build it is definitely cool stuff > > > for a high-school student. But the crypto isn't correct. > Hmmm ... I sent a reference to these lists a year or so ago to an > article in Nature about stashing messages in DNA - the crypto was > nonexistent there (which I felt meant that attacks where possible). > Cheers, > Ben. Well over a decade ago, I remember some of the early work on genetic engineering including copyright notices in the included DNA. This is old stuff. Peter Trei (a biochemist from way back)
