RELEASED: Alan Turing Notes on Cryptography

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...

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...