Re: Biological steganography

From: Damien Broderick (d.broderick@english.unimelb.edu.au)
Date: Thu Oct 07 1999 - 11:13:53 MDT


At 02:10 PM 6/10/99 -0400, David Lubkin wrote:

> placing or hiding messages inside biological organisms.

>Variant 2: Commercial genetic-engineering firms use PGP to encipher a
>message, which they place in the introns of modified products they sell, as
>proof of the authenticity of the product.

A nice version is new writer Chris Lawson's nifty story `Written in Blood'
(in Asimov's, June 99, and almost simultaneously in my new anthology -
co-edited with David Hartwell - CENTAURUS: THE BEST OF AUSTRALIAN SCIENCE
FICTION), where the text of Koran appears in a very strange place...

Damien Broderick



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