Compressed/Encrypted Voice using Modems

[Eric Hughes <hughes@soda.berkeley.edu>]

>By the way, just to bring this back to crypto, everyone should be aware
>that not only did Claude Shannon establish modern information theory,
>he also wrote a seminal paper that established much of modern cryptography.

Not only that, he was single handedly responsible for the 15 minute
delay rule in reporting stock market transactions.  Evidently he
applied information-theoretic techniques to the data and was able to
make a load of money at it.  I have no references on this, and would
love to see some.

Eric