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Cracks In Cryptography: Codebreaking Has Moved On Since Turing's Day

... that Eve will find difficult to find. This is public key encryption . Code breaking Enigma In the days before computers, ciphers ... day that their raw power can crack passwords or uncover encryption methods simply by crunching through all the different possible ...

Article - The Conversation - Dec 2 2014 - 7:30am - 0 attachments

Information-Theoretic Security: Creating 21st Century Cryptography Standards

... to calculate the minimum-security guarantees for any given encryption scheme, which could enable information managers to make more ... To get a sense of how the technique works, imagine an encryption scheme that takes only three possible inputs, or plaintexts — "A," ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 31 2014 - 10:02am - 0 attachments

Google Wants You to Spend Money on a Useless Security Feature

... but then many of the security experts who call for better encryption use Google's GMail service, and Google says its users have no ... random characters as "salt", making it harder to crack the encryption. Any laptop with an Intel Core i3 processor can be used ...

Blog Post - Michael Martinez - Sep 17 2014 - 3:37am - 0 attachments

Single-Celled Organism Smashes And Rebuilds Its Own Genome

... ability to protect their DNA through a novel method of encryption, then rapidly reassemble and transmit robust genes across ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 8 2014 - 3:02pm - 0 attachments

The NSA, Snowden, And Citizen Cryptology

... that the NSA has installed backdoors in our public key encryption standards. More ambitiously, the NSA is hoping to build a ... computer that “ could break nearly every kind of encryption used to protect banking, medical, business, and government records ...

Article - Steve Schuler - Jul 29 2014 - 5:12pm - 0 attachments

HTTP With Accountability: Tim Berners-Lee Wants To Reinvent The World Wide Web

... controlled much the way it is now, through passwords and encryption. But every time the server transmitted a piece of sensitive data, it ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 16 2014 - 3:34pm - 0 attachments

Keeping Quantum Secrets In An NSA World

... We already know that one of today's most widely used encryption systems, RSA, will become insecure if a quantum computer is built. ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 26 2014 - 4:00pm - 0 attachments

Oh, What A Tangled Web The NSA Weaves

... National Institute of Standards and Technology public key encryption standards. I’ll borrow an analogy for a simplified description of how public key encryption works from Simon Singh . Imagine a sturdy metal box that can be ...

Article - Steve Schuler - Mar 8 2014 - 6:39am - 0 attachments

Carnival of Math Number 1101000

... 40 entries.  The friendship paradox, a flaw in RSA encryption, how combinatronics and Pampers are related, it's all here. If ...

Cool Link - Hank Campbell - Nov 12 2013 - 4:00pm - 0 attachments

How the Guardian is Helping Al Qaeda and the NSA

Bruce Schneier needs to watch the movie "Battleship" more desperately than any moron in history.  He may know a lot about security systems in technology but his efforts to undermine the US government and its allies' efforts to track Al Qaeda's operat ...

Blog Post - Michael Martinez - Sep 8 2013 - 12:42pm - 0 attachments