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A 50-Year Quest: My Personal Journey with the Second Law of Thermodynamics

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I’m not sure when I first became aware of cryptography. And this is what led me to more physics-oriented thinking about cryptography—and to what I said in Scientific American. But rule 30 suggested one could instead have a fixed rule, and have the initial condition define the key. But finally in May 2002 it was published.