Interview With Cryptographer Elonka Dunin 103
An anonymous reader writes "Whitedust is running a very interesting article with the DEF CON speaker and cryptographer Elonka Dunin. The article covers her career and specifically her involvement with the CIA and other US Military agencies."
So (Score:2, Interesting)
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Yes and no.
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AH, so the cat does NOT have top secret clearance!
Re:So (Score:3, Funny)
He does... and he doesn't.
I couldn't resist (Score:2, Funny)
Depends on which country (couldn't resist) (Score:2)
russian cat: Where secret's don't kill the cat but the cat kills you!
Polish cat: *pop*
dutch cat: I'm too stoned, leave me alone.
Cartoon [google.be] cat: In little pieces you go for knowing my classification level!
USA cat: I can tell you but then I have to kill you!
English cat: Martini please, shaken, not stirred (while thinking: I'm using my license to kill)
Iraki cat: *boom*
Smart [wikipedia.org] cat: Got to report this to the cryptonomium
My cat: is there any food left?
Your cat might be in the resistance
Re:So (Score:2, Funny)
maybe
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better more commercial answer (Score:2)
Re:So (Score:3, Informative)
Dunno about the military and quantum cryptography, but the NSA are looking for people doing quantum-computing related research, maybe chryptography fit in?
http://aip.jobcontrolcenter.com/jobdetail.cfm?job
Elonka (Score:5, Informative)
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A Beautiful Mind? (Score:2, Interesting)
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"hopeless social outcast" (Score:1, Troll)
This would be completely offtopic if it didn't speak to the question of whether or not you can be a genius without being completely maladjusted.
Re:"hopeless social outcast" (Score:1)
I think it's just that she's intelligent enough to realize that the idea of marriage doesn't appeal to her, though of course, there could be more to it than that. I don't know her personally, but I did meet her one year at SimuCon [play.net]
Re:"hopeless social outcast" (Score:2)
Oops, it the Sheraton, not Hilton. I have to admit that it is all kind of a blur, given that I didn't get much sleep over the few days that I was there, owing to the fact that I was sharing a room (with two beds) with eleven other people.
Re:"hopeless social outcast" (Score:2)
The above poster makes a good point about her being flirtatious and sexually liberated, which isn't something you can really pick up from her (admittedly large) body of published material online.
It's interesting to me that most geeky women seem to fall either into the "sexually repressed" or "libertine" categories. I can't actually think of a single geeky girl I know who is just straight-up sexually normal on that scale.
You're absolutely dead-on (Score:2)
She's one of the most impressive people I've ever had the pleasure of meeting. She's staggeringly intelligent, yet completely approachable and unassuming. She's the only person I've ever met who can discuss quantum cryptography in detail without coming across sounding "high brow". Think of a femal
Background info (Score:5, Informative)
--Pat
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NJMG
She is pretty amazing (Score:3, Interesting)
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Re:She is pretty amazing (Score:1, Funny)
Very cool person ;) (Score:3, Interesting)
Btw, its about time we caught another movie
Re:Very cool person ;) (Score:1)
Re:Very cool person ;) (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Very cool person ;) (Score:1)
Potential Problem (Score:4, Funny)
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I'm not sure.
Re:Potential Problem (Score:5, Funny)
As long as you don't look, no problem!
Re:Potential Problem (Score:1)
Yeah but I think you're forgetting about the smell
do as any civilised person ... (Score:2)
The Corporation (Score:5, Interesting)
The CIA is not supposed to trade guns for cocaine or peddle them in the US, or work with the mafia to fund operations secret from Congress, either.
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The first time round when approaching the NSA booth I stupidly enough kept my (normal) british accent and was almost imediatly told to go see the GCHQ. (i.e. "get lost kid") So I walked off again and only came back when
Re:The Corporation (Score:2)
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We desperately need more leaders like Hugo Chavez, and considerably less than th
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OK, TrollMod, try googling for (cia "iran/contra" cocaine) [google.com].
In our midst (Score:4, Interesting)
Re:In our midst (Score:2)
And she goes to the gym [slashdot.org], too!
C'mon guys, now we have a genius as our slashdotter role model, we should follow her example and build some muscle!
Re:In our midst (Score:5, Informative)
I'll take that bet. ;) Wasn't me, and I didn't even know that the Whitedust interview had been posted, until the Simutronics CEO (David Whatley [slashdot.org], another slashdotter) IMed me and said, "You are about to be slashdotted" (and no, it wasn't him either). A couple minutes after that, a bunch of other IMs flew in with similar warnings to batten down the web-server, and I've been dealing with the related deluge for the rest of the day. As slashdottings go though, it's been relatively light (only about 5000 visitors), probably because the Whitedust folks didn't actually put any links to my website in their interview. The traffic has been coming in from the secondary links in the /. thread, from my Wikipedia bio [wikipedia.org], and from Google.
If I would have started the thread, you can be sure I would have linked it better, to my site [elonka.com], my company [play.net], and my upcoming book [elonka.com]. ;) My guess is it was posted by someone from Whitedust.
Elonka :)
Re:In our midst (Score:1)
There really should be a Slashdot interview with you, could skip the whole picking out qestions and waiting for answers bit too.
I know i'd really like to hear about the whole game development thing myself.
Willow Offgood will protect her! (Score:1, Funny)
Steganography (Score:3, Interesting)
And there was an extensive scan of images done by a team from the University of Michigan,
looking through millions of internet locations, and then clustering computers together and
running password dictionary attacks on anything that looked suspicious, but they never found
a single thing.
Given the prevalence of near GB files traversing the internet, and a payload of only a few kB,
is there any reasonable expectation that one could find it if it did exist, let alone decrypt it?
Elonka,should we be in constant fear of terrorism? (Score:4, Insightful)
I would like to ask her if she feels that the amount of fear that people feel today about terrorism is justified? Is Elonka fearful of terrorist cells in our midst? Does she think that we are due for another attack?
It would be interesting to know what she has to say about the 'War on Terrorism.'
doubt that she has given it that much thought (Score:3, Interesting)
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I can't speak for Elonka, but when I was helping (a little) with the codes book which is going to be published Real Soon Now, I got the extremely strong impression that, about Iraq at any rate, she was strongly in favour of robust, informed debate. She filled the book with quotes about the moral and pragmatic issues of war from multiple perspectives for precisely that reason.
So if I had to guess, if you asked her that question, the answer would almost certainly be along the same lines.
On a personal note,
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I couldn't have put it any better myself. You got it exactly right, and I'm glad that that came through, at least to you, one of my
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Re:Elonka Dunin? (Score:2, Funny)
It's amazing how often parents make really poor choices when naming their children. For example, Yahoo's people search comes up with 82 occurances of people named Richard Head.
Re:Elonka Dunin? (Score:2)
That's gotta hurt.
Nope (Score:5, Funny)
More probably her real name is "LEONA UNKIND". Or, since this is Slashdot and sooner or later the question "hotness" comes up when any woman is discussed, you might want to click "ON A NUDE LINK", and hope you don't get "A NODE UNLINK", or if she's feeling a bit waspish you may be in for "A DUNK ONLINE".
Re:Elonka Dunin? (Score:2, Informative)
Re:Elonka Dunin? (Score:2, Informative)
Yup, you get the prize for coming closest, though I got a kick out of the various anagrams, too. :)
For the record (and those not interested in genealogy or name origins can stop reading now), it's my real birth name, and is Hungarian. I was named after my maternal grandmother, Ilona Pazman. The "ka" is a diminutive suffix (like in Spanish, "Juan" will become Juan
Re:Elonka Dunin? (Score:1)
Elonka? Is that Gnome or KDE? (Score:2)
Gemstone III (Score:2)
Fifteen years ago, Gemstone had a top simultaneaous limit of 60 players and was apparently
Any one know her AFSC? (Score:1)
Elonka's bio [elonka.com] states she was a USAF avionics tech with the SR-71 and U-2 programs.
Anyone know her AFSC (Air Force Specialty Code)?
Re:Any one know her AFSC? (Score:2, Informative)
325x1
Elonka :)
Re:Any one know her AFSC? (Score:1)
Instruments - cool.
I was a 328x3 Electronic Warfare guy with the TR-1/U-2 at RAF Alconbury and Osan AB (IYAABYAS!). I worked on the sensors.
Nice meeting you Elonka.
Jim
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who? (Score:4, Interesting)
I'm hoping someone can post what it is that makes her famous, other than being a girl in one of the geekiest parts domains of CS.
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Ah
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RTFA. -1 for being a dork. -1 for being lazy. -1 for asking others to tell you what you could have learned yourself in less time than it took you to write your post.
Good general practice: RTFA, then read the comments.
(Yeah, yeah, this is /., we cannot expect good practice generally.)
I'd never heard of her either, until I RTFAd. After RTFAing, I'm glad ScuttleMonkey accepted the article, she's a very interesting person with a way cool
Re:who? (Score:2)
And for you: -1 for not answering a question.
Re:who? (Score:2)
I know! The audacity of them! It absolutely should have said Lazy Ass Lord Ender, who is interested in hearing what people have to say only if the person has done something he personally considers to be worth his time, or if they have had a crypto algorithm named after them, will delight in the following facts wh
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If you knew the difference between quality and crap, you would have RTFA and STFU
you "ph33r" Elonka (Score:3, Informative)
To make my post more self-promoting, I will point readers to 2 episodes of Binary Revolution Radio [binrev.com] that she was on Here [binrev.com] and Here [binrev.com].
As far as the personal questions, how about you STFU and GTFO because it is NOYGDB? kthxbye!