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Sneakers, Chapter 9: Bishop (Robert Redford) and company have their hands on the code-breaking machine from Setec Astronomy. It's a great movie, especially if you are paranoid. In this plot, the government and the mob are both out to get you.
The key (pun intended) to it all is the encryption. Encryption is also a hot topic among embedded developers. It's central to digital rights management (DRM), the International PGP (Pretty Good Privacy, www.pgpi.org), the Advanced Encryption Standard (AES), virtual private networks (VPNs),...