[wslh]

For a nice anecdote from Leonard Adleman about his contribution to Sneakers see http://www.usc.edu/dept/molecular-science/fm-sneakers.htm

[vezzy-fnord]

I found Sneakers a little disappointing.

Don't get me wrong, it was a pretty decent 90s thriller. Very charming. But the way it was described made it out to be as if it portrayed complex cryptographic and technical concepts.

All I really saw was an anagram and some idealized substitution cipher. Fun film, misleading summary.

[wslh]

But Adleman, the scientist behind the assessment, is one of the most prominent cryptographers and number theorists.