Lead surgeon Dr.Antonio Alcaraz instructs fellow surgeons and students watching the procedure through closed-circuit television.

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In the case, Mr Justice Ouseley said that the parties could not voluntarily agree to a closed procedure - and that Parliament would have to legislate.

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We don't know whether this is true or not - but if the case ever gets to court, the government would want to use a closed procedure to protect GCHQ's workings.

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Smid noted that NIST's public contest to find the next generation encryption standard is a radical change from the government's previously closed procedure for adopting DES. "It's a breakthrough in the way the government and the public sector are coming up with a standard, " he said.

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