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...fine wines, tend to improve with age. The competing code system Shamir co-authored at M.I.T. remains, for the moment, uncracked. But the discovery of so basic a flaw in the Stanford scheme is no small matter. When public-key codes first started appearing in scientific journals, Admiral Bobby Inman, then head of the National Security Agency and until recently deputy director of the CIA, worried in public about the Soviets' and other hostile nations' learning to develop uncrackable codes simply by studying published U.S. encryption work. But that fear may lave been misdirected: on the contrary...
...Inman said the major threat to the future of the United States will be whether it can curb "leaks from industrial research. He added that a similar dialogue between business and the government is necessary...
...controversial this January, Inman said thus scientists had better except voluntary regulations on-publicizing or else face legal restraints in such fields as computer hardware and software, lasers, crop projections, and cryptology...
When he headed the NSA, Inman instituted a set of voluntary restrictions on the publication of cryptology methods, including codemaking and breaking. Inman has said that scientists should prefer voluntary guidelines to one Congress might mandate...
...reasons for Inman's current optimists is a recent National Academy of Sciences report which suggested a compromise between an open-flow of information and some voluntary restrictions...