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Thursday, 21 May 2009

The next Big Thing

There are many sites on the Internet that let you create polls for others to take. Many of these user-created polls help you decide important issues like which Star Wars character you are most like, which  character from The Lord of the Rings you are the most like, or even which character you are the most like from classic '70s sitcoms like Welcome Back Kotter and Mork and Mindy. There are so many of these sites out there that I have to assume that they're popular.

Eventually, however, people are going to run out of popular culture references to use for these polls, and that's when cryptography will have its chance for 15 minutes of fame. Imagine millions of people taking polls that tell them which public-key algorithm they're most like or which mode of AES they're the most like.

It could happen.

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