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and DEC dominated the market nobody would have believed that a largely
vendor-independent system like UNIX (and today Linux) would proliferate so
strongly (and that, over such a long period of time, an insecure and unstable
system like Windows would dominate one day).
In closing, Kahn writes in his topic [KahnCode] that cryptographers are about to
win the race over cryptanalysts. Compared with the state of affairs up to World
War II, this may be true, but we should beware of too much optimism — or do
you happen to know what state non-public cryptological research has reached
meanwhile? (If you do, let me know, by all means!)
In any event, cryptologists have to do a lot of research to make security
compromises provable or even prevent them, and at an acceptable cost. It
is theoretically even possible that cryptology will help make the information
society more secure than it is today, but the way to get there is long.
