Category Archives: crypto

from  The New York Times, February 14, 2012 Researchers Find Flaw in an Online Encryption Method  Last paragraph: The researchers whimsically titled their paper “Ron Was Wrong, Whit Is Right,” a reference to two pioneers in public key cryptography, Ron Rivest and Whitfield Diffie. Mr. Diffie was a developer of the first method for two [...]

June 8, 2011 Popular Mechanics by Mary Beth Griggs At the World Science Festival this weekend, four very different cryptography experts gathered to discuss the history of humans’ attempts to keep our information secret from one another. As our security measures improve, so do hacker tactics. But, the experts say, there’s one thing that never [...]

Not That Secure after All: Cryptography in a Connected World blog post in Scientific American By Neda Afsarmanesh | Jun 6, 2011 “Keeping Secrets: Cryptography in a Connected World,” ended June 4 at the World Science Festival. But the lively panelists, often in disagreement with one another, seemed to be unanimously content with this assertion. [...]

Google University Lecture by Stephen Weis The text at http://go/cryptocourse