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...currently existing encryption schemes are based on improvable assumptions," Rabin said. "As a consequence, it is in principle possible that people using a secret algorithm and a sufficiently powerful computer will be able to break a code...
Rabin said people often eavesdrop on conversations and capture and store the coded messages. They then read the messages once they have perfected their code-breaking methods--a technique that Rabin's system would thwart...
...This new encryption preserves the secrecy of messages indefinitely so that even an adversary with unlimited computing power and who is infinitely smart in code breaking cannot ever decode the message," he said...
...fast ticket home. Targeted cuts don't resonate with people who fill out their own tax returns either. Breaks that phase out as you go up the income ladder or are linked to the type of child care you choose, or whatever, complicate a code already so confusing that the IRS estimates it takes a record 13 hours, on average, to complete a 1040. So why do we have targeted tax breaks at all? Politics, of course...
...common way to target relief is to create income thresholds. The existing code has some two dozen. Among them: converting a traditional IRA to a Roth (can't do it if you make $100,000), making deductible contributions to a Roth (uh-uh, not if you're single and earning $95,000 or a couple earning $160,000), and taking HOPE scholarship and Lifetime Learning credits (limit: $40,000, singles; $80,000, couples). Bush can't just dump the thresholds. Democrats would scream: Tax cut for the rich...