#crytography

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[verymaudlin]

so this book i bought for $50 in 2006 is now worth $200

it's a book about ghosts and the paranormal from around 1850

(mines in better shape)

but the reason i got it isn't even just because it was an occult book (my special interest at the time). no i got it because of this

see those markings? my 11 year old cryptography (another special interest) obsessed brain i instantly recognized that as pigpen code. i didn't know it by heart so i went home from the antique book shop, got all of my birthday money i ever had and bought it so i could decode it.

here's the pig pen code.

so upon decoding it i was heartbroken to learn that it was gibberish:

HMWOOTMO

i chalked it up to the book cover just needing to look cool. but ever since then i've always wondered, if i just never cracked the code....

[markagorman]

Enigma by Robert Harris: Recent Reading.

Fatherland and Conclave have been stand-out reads in the last year or two. Carefully plotted and playing with history in a tantalising way, they really captured my imagination and were extremely well written and researched to boot. Conclave is also a fine movie. This is a significant step down from those excellent books. Harris doesn’t do romance, and although that’s only a small part of this…

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[digiteer]

Blockchain Security and Privacy

Blockchain Security and Privacy

The most important security aspects of blockchain are:

Blockchain security and privacy comprise of smart contracts, forks, cryptography (algorithms, and cryptographic key management)

Smart Contracts

It facilitates the transaction on the internet without the need for a middleman or an escrow service. When 2 parties are involving themselves in a contract they will need to draw a smart…

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[billloguidice]

Free Access to Special Issues in Computer Science, Springer Journals - Computer Vision, Intelligence, Robots, Cryptography, Data Mining, etc.

Free Access to Special Issues in Computer Science, Springer Journals - Computer Vision, Intelligence, Robots, Cryptography, Data Mining, etc. #computerscience #cs #journal

You can enjoy free access to featured special issues in Computer Science (CS) from Springer journals until April 30, 2020. There’s also a list of open Call for Papers.

This page contains hundreds of articles on a variety of research topics and all are available for free for a limited period of time!

Guest Edited Special Issues & Topical Collections

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[niteshkumarbis-blog]

Maxim Integrated Flaunts New Single-chip Security Supervisors

The MAX36010 and MAX36011 security supervisors from Maxim Integrated provide robust tamper detection and cryptography

[pauljacobevans]

The Grooviest Random Number Generator Ever

Cloudflare is one of those Internet companies you use all the time, but don’t usually know it. Big websites you visit use Cloudflare to shore up their defenses against denial of service attacks. The company needed some truly random numbers for its security solutions, so it turned to some groovy old tech: lava lamps. In their office is a wall of 100 lava lamps monitored by cameras. The reaction of the lamps is unpredictable, and this allows them to generate really random numbers. [Joshua], a Cloudflare employee, talks about the technical details of the system in a recent blog post. …read more http://pje.fyi/Q8xQDW

[parislemon]

There are several really interesting clocks in Berlin.

Jim Sanborn, the sculptor of Kryptos, the puzzle sculpture at CIA headquarters in Langley, Va. Since its installation in 1990, only three of the messages have been decyphered, so Sanborn has been giving clues to help people will the last one -- including the words "BERLIN" and "clock".