The Two Schools of Cryptography

Technology Research News (TRN) is featuring an article on the two schools of cryptography, based on the two basic methods of cryptography, namely, computational and probabilistic.

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Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Sat, 2008-01-05 19:47.
I'm struck by the insidious, computer-driven tendency to take things out of the domain of muscular activity and put them into the domain of mental activity. The transfer is not paying off. Sure, muscles are unreliable, but they represent several million years of accumulated finesse.