1994-06-14 - RE: DNA

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From: Mats Bergstrom <matsb@sos.sll.se>
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Message Hash: 61e636de711de1b2173916601a1be4940710e838f4c1b3e6b0ff0233ca8bd575
Message ID: <Pine.3.85.9406140354.A14535-0100000@cor.sos.sll.se>
Reply To: <72713.pfarrell@netcom.com>
UTC Datetime: 1994-06-14 01:47:31 UTC
Raw Date: Mon, 13 Jun 94 18:47:31 PDT

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From: Mats Bergstrom <matsb@sos.sll.se>
Date: Mon, 13 Jun 94 18:47:31 PDT
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: RE: DNA
In-Reply-To: <72713.pfarrell@netcom.com>
Message-ID: <Pine.3.85.9406140354.A14535-0100000@cor.sos.sll.se>
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Pat Farrell wrote:

> when getting up from their chairs, would leave sufficient hair, skin
> flakes, sweat, etc. behind that DNA mapping would be easy. ...

There is no DNA in hair or sweat but surely in larger skin
flakes. These are mostly very dead cells though making
analysis difficult but not impossible, if lucky, with current
techniques. Corresponding hair could be used for testing
accumulated levels of recreational drugs of cource.
Fortunately there will be no remains of your crypto key
(unless you based it upon your DNA code...).

//mb 








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