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The lessons learned from gliding and cryptography applied to nuclear weapons

OCT 22, 2008
Physics Today
Nuclearrisk.org : Martin Hellman is a co-inventor of public key cryptography, the technology that secures communication of credit card and other sensitive information over the internet. He has worked for more than 25 years to reduce the threat posed by nuclear weapons and his current project is described at NuclearRisk.org . He is a glider pilot with over 2,600 hours in the air.
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