2008/01/30 by O Okunoye Babatunde, O. Okunoye Babatunde, Babatunde, O. Okunoye
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology · Computer Science · Engineering · #Cryptography and Security (cs.CR) #DNA and Biological Computing #FOS: Computer and information sciences #Molecular Communication and Nanonetworks #cs.CR
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.0801.4664
8 pages,7 figures
arxiv created 2008/01/30 · openalex publication_date 2008/01/30 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
Codes have been used for centuries to convey secret information.To a cryptanalyst, the interception of a code is only the first step in recovering a secret message.Deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) is a biological and molecular code.Through the work of Marshall Nirenberg and others, DNA is now understood to specify for amino acids in triplet codes of bases.The possibilty of DNA encoding secret information in a natural language is explored, since a code is expected to have a distinct mathematical solution.