During a security briefing at the White House, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld breaks some tragic news: Mr President, three Brazilian soldiers were killed yesterday while supporting U.S. troops. My...
Polský úspěch v prolomení Enigmy byl dán třemi faktory: strachem, matematikou a špionáží.
Even the Vatican, probably the second most active center of cryptanalysis, would send Soro seemingly impenetrable messages that had fallen into its hands. In 1526, Pope Clement VII sent him two encryp...
If N is large enough, it is virtually impossible to deduce p and q from N, and this is perhaps the most beautiful and elegant aspect of the RSA asymmetric cipher.
The First World War was the chemists’ war, because mustard gas and chlorine were employed for the first time,
The only people who are in a position to point out my errors are also those who are not at liberty to reveal them.
250 qubits, it is possible to represent roughly 1075 combinations, which is greater than the number of atoms in the universe. If it were possible to achieve the appropriate superposition with 250 part...
„Lidé zapojení do debaty o šifrování jsou vesměs inteligentní, čestní a jsou pro depozici klíčů, ale nikdy nemají více než dvě tyto vlastnosti najednou.
An astronomer, a physicist, and a mathematician (it is said) were holidaying in Scotland. Glancing from a train window, they observed a black sheep in the middle of a field. How interesting, observed...
When Hermann Göring visited Warsaw in 1934, he was totally unaware of the fact that his communications were being intercepted and deciphered. As he and other German dignitaries laid a wreath at the To...
Turing’s secret had been exposed, and his sexuality was now public knowledge. The British Government withdrew his security clearance. He was forbidden to work on research projects relating to the deve...
Syllabic scripts occupy the middle ground, with between 50 and 100 syllabic characters. Beyond these two facts, Linear B was an unfathomable mystery.
In April 1977, Rivest, Shamir and Adleman spent Passover at the house of a student, and had consumed significant amounts of Manischewitz wine before returning to their respective homes some time aroun...
It is quite possible that British Intelligence demanded that Babbage keep his work secret, thus providing them with a nine-year head start over the rest of the world.
Jack Good, a veteran of Bletchley, commented: Fortunately the authorities did not know that Turing was a homosexual. Otherwise we might have lost the war.
Scientific proof is inevitably fickle and shoddy. On the other hand mathematical proof is absolute and devoid of doubt.
Lisa Simpson is the kind of child we not only want our children to be, but also the kind of child we want all children to be.
One of the features of the Enigma machine was its inability to encipher a letter as itself, which was a consequence of the reflector. The letter a could never be enciphered as A, the letter b could ne...
Quantum cryptography is an unbreakable system of encryption.
Chinese wrote messages on fine silk, which was then scrunched into a tiny ball and covered in wax. The messenger would then swallow the ball of wax.
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