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Scientific American

March 1, 1996

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Bad Timing

A loophole is found in a popular encryption scheme

By Charles Seife

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Charles Seife is director of the Arthur L. Carter Institute of Journalism at New York University and the author of seven books, including a history of fusion, Sun in a Bottle, and a biography of a major scientist, Hawking Hawking.

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Scientific American Magazine Vol 274 Issue 3This article was originally published with the title “Bad Timing” in Scientific American Magazine Vol. 274 No. 3 (), p. 36
doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0396-36a
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