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Tag Archives: Cryptography
Chip and Pin is Broken
In which I refer to Chip and Pin credit cards being broken
Command Line Cryptography
In which I use unix commands to create simple cryptographic puzzles
This post is part of a series of 47 posts which begins with The Caesar Shift, the latest post in the series is Letter Groups.
Posted in Classical Cryptography, Computing Also tagged Atbash, bash, Caesar Shift, Mac, OS X 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 [...]
This post is part of a series of 47 posts which begins with The Caesar Shift, the latest post in the series is Letter Groups.
Posted in Cryptography, Geeky, Modern Cryptography, Physics, Science Also tagged 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 Also tagged Adam Savage, Law, Mythbusters, RFID, Security, Stupid Security, Television, Video 1 Comment
Letter Groups
This post is the latest in a series of 47 posts which begins with The Caesar Shift.