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Happy Birthday, Edgar Allen Poe
In which I celebrate the life of Edgar Allen Poe
Happy Birthday, Edgar Allen Poe is part of a series
Also posted in Classical Cryptography, General Articles Tagged Author, Classical Cryptography, Edgar Allen Poe, Monoalphabet Leave a comment
Quantum Cryptography (a background)
In this article I hope to illustrate some of the ideas behind the strange topic of Quantum Cryptography, though I won’t be discussing cryptography itself, that comes later – just the necessary physics.
First we must consider the nature of light (this can be generalised to any particle once we get all quantum mechanical, but let’s [...]
Quantum Cryptography (a background) is part of a series
Also posted in Geeky, Modern Cryptography, Physics, Science Tagged Cryptography, Light, Modern Cryptography, Physics, Polarisation 2 Comments
Mythbusters Gagged
Adam Savage, of the excellent ‘Mythbusters’ programme(*) reports that they were going to do a segment on RFID chips only to have the lawyers descend from Visa, American Express etc.
Texas Instruments comes on along with chief legal counsel for American Express, Visa, Discover, and everybody else… They were way, way outgunned and they absolutely made [...]
Posted in Cryptography Tagged Adam Savage, Cryptography, Law, Mythbusters, RFID, Security, Stupid Security, Television, Video 1 Comment
Bank unilaterally changes password
Just seen a funny, but worrying, story on the BBC, a man who had the password ‘Lloyds is pants’ on his bank account had it changed by the bank to ‘no it’s not’.
It was changed as it was ‘inappropriate’. He tried to change it to ‘Lloyds is Rubbish’ – or ‘Barclays is better’ but this [...]
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Command Line Cryptography
Command Line Cryptography is part of a series