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 [...]
Reporter Scott Gurvey: The microprocessor is high on our list of innovations; also, the personal computers they make possible. Flash memory and liquid crystal displays are on the list. Also the programs which control the machines: productivity products like spreadsheets and word processors; programming paradigms like open source software and services. Many of the innovations [...]
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 [...]
Secrecy News June 9th, 2011 by Steven Aftergood The National Security Agency announced June 9th that it has declassified a report that is over two hundred years old. The newly declassified report, entitled “Cryptology: Instruction Book on the Art of Secret Writing,” dates from 1809. It is part of a collection of 50,000 pages of [...]
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. [...]
The National Security Agency plans to spend $902 million on information assurance in fiscal 2011, funding everything from advanced encryption to cyber warfare training. By J. Nicholas Hoover InformationWeek April 09, 2010 The National Security Agency will spend $902 million on information assurance next year, according to an NSA budget request posted on a Department of Defense [...]
By Sam Anderson New York Times Review of Books 4 April 2010 The history of the vocoder, cryptography’s top-secret funk machine. The vocoder—code name Special Customer, the Green Hornet, Project X-61753, X-Ray, and SIGSALY—started distorting human speech in earnest during World War II, in response to the excellence of German wiretapping. Read More
Freedom’s John Hogan leads New England chapter of Naval crypto veterans by Daymond Steer Staff Writer
24 Mar 2011, Network World: Michael Cooney, Layer 8 FBI: How to be an expert at the black art of cryptography The FBI this week issued a release talking up its status as the world’s premier cryptographic experts saying: “Breaking such codes is the FBI’s Cryptanalysis and Racketeering Records Unit unique specialty. Despite the FBI’s [...]
IMA Public Lecture, 2006 Secrecy, privacy, and deception: the mathematics of cryptography http://www.ima.umn.edu/group-photo/PUB3.9.11/
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