By SARA ROBINSON Three Indian computer scientists have solved a longstanding mathematics problem by devising a way for a computer to tell quickly and...
Was just sitting here thinking that I hadn't seen any postings from the group in my inbox for quite a while - then opened it up, and sure enough, right on cue,...
Well, you are correct. There have been no postings on the forum for about two weeks. That is largely my fault. My daughter is down in Florida and she is...
By ANICK JESDANUN, AP Internet Writer NEW YORK (August 12, 2002 12:10 a.m. EDT) - Snoopers on the Internet could decode sensitive e-mail messages simply by...
There are books about how the Japanese cypher worked. If memory serves me well their coding system was very similar to the german Enigma method. I doubt very...
[The two following pieces are from reviews of "Day of Deceit" by Robert Stinnett. They are not excerpts from the book itself. The first is from a site called...
Excellent research. Thanks for doing that. Well, this is a very interesting discussion that generates more questions than it answers. The first question is...
Regarding the Enigma and japanese Purple codes I am able to tell a little. However I haven't any books on hand to consult so I have to give a sketchy version...
Thing is, the US did have SIGINT intercepts before 12/7/41 but SIGINT analysis was, in a word, JANFU. Too much information but not enough trained analysts to ...
Even today, I'll bet being in intelligence analysis has to be very frustrating. I am in the business of data processing and, for many years now, the trend has...
The other day we had a discussion about Enigma and I said that when I could get to the library I would get some book titles. Well, I still haven't been to the...
This may seem a bit off topic, but motorcycle messengers and code words in prayers--does it seem to anyone else cryptology may have come full circle back to...
[A Web-only sidebar to "Homeland Insecurity," (September, 2002 Atlantic Monthly) by Charles C. Mann] Public-key encryption, as noted in the profile of...
Pat Buchanan ( printer-friendly version <http://www.townhall.com/columnists/patbuchanan/printpb20020826.shtml> ) August 26, 2002 My cousin, the code-breaker ...
Sorry I have been gone so long. My grandchild, who was due in July and August, has still not joined us. The doctor is very firm that this birth will take...
I have a draft version of the strategic plan to protect our infrastructure. This is set for release tomorrow, Wednesday, September 18. The document is 66 page...
AES may have been broken. Serpent, too. Or maybe not. In either case, there's no need to panic. Yet. But there might be soon. Maybe. Some of the confusion...
There's a new Twofish C library, written by Niels Ferguson. The main differences with existing code available is that this one is fully portable, easy to...
AES may have been broken. Serpent, too. Or maybe not. In either case, there's no need to panic. Yet. But there might be soon. Maybe. Some of the confusion...
19:00 02 October 02 NewScientist.com news service Quantum cryptography keys encoded in photons of light have been transmitted more than 23 kilometres through...
Saturday October 5, 2002 The Guardian · Most alarming news of a scary week was the reported arrest of some alleged criminal for "collecting information that...
12:58 18 October 02 NewScientist.com news service The uniqueness of everyone's voice can now be used to lock up data extra securely on mobile phones and...
10/17/2002 - Updated 08:39 PM ET By John Diamond, USA TODAY WASHINGTON — The National Security Agency, the nation's eavesdropper, is having a hard time...
by Bruce Schneier founder and CTO of Counterpane Internet Security Inc. It's a meme that never seems to go away. Every time I write about this cryptanalytic...
By Brad King 02:00 AM Oct. 19, 2002 PDT Daniel Bernstein seems intent on striking the deathblow to U.S. government regulations on cryptography. The latest...
www.wired.com By Karlin Lillington 02:00 AM Sep. 19, 2002 PDT NAAS, Ireland -- In a lush country hotel 20 miles south of Dublin, the barroom conversation turns...
www.wired.com By Danit Lidor 02:00 AM Sep. 13, 2002 PDT The venerable online community is celebrating its 10th anniversary which, in the ephemeral world of the...
