Tag: Cryptography
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RELEASED: Alan Turing Notes on Cryptography
Are there any insights left to be wrung from the code breaker’s papers? Chris Vallance of the BBC reports that GCHQ has released some of Alan Turing’s papers on the theory of code breaking. They’re not on display at the National Archives at Kew. I’ve checked the web pages of the Archives and GCHQ, and there is…
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How NSA access was built into Windows
Careless mistake reveals subversion of Windows by NSA? A CARELESS mistake by Microsoft programmers has revealed that special access codes prepared by the US National Security Agency have been secretly built into Windows. The NSA access system is built into every version of the Windows operating system now in use, except early releases of Windows…
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Bamford Claims NSA Has Made “An Enormous Breakthrough” in Cryptanalysis
Well, it has been the $64,000 question for a couple of decades: Can NSA break something like PGP? While there might be other black world technologies that could be up to the task (there’s no way to know), what we do know is that a practical quantum computing capability would be, for all intents and…
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Namecoin – A DNS alternative based on Bitcoin
Namecoin is a domain name system based on Bitcoin. It extends Bitcoin to add transactions for registering, updating and transferring names. The idea behind this is to provide an alternative to the existing DNS system where names can be taken from their owners by groups that control the DNS servers. The project was originally announced…