Word: bits
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Encryption converts data into a locked or 'ciphertext' version. In order to decipher the data, a key is needed. The quality of an encryption key is measured in bits. The more bits, the merrier. The strongest commercially available encryption is currently 128 bits, (although there is some insane company that just announced 4,096 bit encryption...
...airlines have drained most of the spontaneity from the nation's leisure-time travel, with those money-saving but anxiety-producing "nonrefundable" fares, which require long advance purchases and slap heavy penalties for even a slight change in plans. (The Internet has lately helped reverse this a bit, offering customers a chance to bid for cheap last-minute fares...
Unfortunately, even the most powerful existing medications, like Methotrexate, either carry unacceptable side effects or are ineffective against rheumatoid arthritis, or both. Clinicians are understandably a bit giddy, therefore, at the news that after more than a decade of no progress, not just one but a number of new treatments are all at once streaming out of research labs...
...Christian teens in 50 states to schoolyard prayer. Witnesses and local organizers confirm that 110 showed up at Ripon High School in Ripon, Calif.; 50 at Nashua High in Nashua, N.H.; and a total of 4,871 at 63 schools in San Antonio, Texas. Clark's figures seem a bit overoptimistic, but even at half strength, the national event, which has been building annually for nine years, may deserve his description as "a historic movement...
...dilemma is made a bit too sharp and pat by Ethan's peace-loving intellectual heritage, but Schwartz stays close enough to his characters' thoughts to keep the debate authentic and personal, rather than calculated and abstract...