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September 16, 2002
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2002-09-16
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U.S. plan to invade Iraq
:
Colin Powell
meets with the
United Nations Security Council
to push for stronger resolutions against
Iraq
. In a surprise reversal, Iraq tells the
United Nations
it will allow weapons inspectors "immediately and without condition."
Cryptography
: A worrying theoretical
cryptanalytic
attack on the
Advanced Encryption Standard
(AES) has been announced in a paper by
Nicolas Courtois
and
Josef Pieprzyk
entitled "Cryptanalysis of Block Ciphers with Overdefined Systems of Equations". This appears to show a surprising potential theoretical weakness in the AES
algorithm
.
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