Posts Tagged ‘cryptography’

Links On A Saturday Night

Sunday, October 4th, 2009

Between this whole house-selling/house-buying thing, and the relatively insane week I’ve had at work, I have been neglecting the blog. Let’s catch up on a few things that have popped up in the meantime.

I may have mentioned here before that I enjoyed Farmer’s Riverworld books (for getting me into Burton, among other things), and I [...]

Stick Figure Crypto

Tuesday, September 22nd, 2009

I generally love when people use the comic form to explain complicated concepts. I generally love cryptography. I have a special place in my heart for stick figures.
So you can imagine how I feel about Jeff Moser’s multi-stage explanation of how AES came about, and how it works.

Everyone should check it out, since there’s not [...]

Saturday Night Shotgun Post

Sunday, July 5th, 2009

While I’m uploading some MP3s for a music post a little later tonight, let’s do the tab closing dance:

Did you see the story about the scientists who unfroze the blob of 120,000 year old life in the Arctic? I can’t do my usual thing of making the news sound like a creepy SF or Lovecraftian [...]

A Monday Night Gallimaufry

Monday, June 22nd, 2009

Let’s see if we can close some of the myriad tabs I’ve opened in the process of trying to catch up with everything that happened in the non-work world while I was off spending time at the Melbourne office:

I’m quite impressed at the 16-year old (from the city where I did my university days) who [...]

Nerding It Up Tinfoil Hat Style

Wednesday, November 26th, 2008

So, a few months back I was thinking about an upcoming trip to Boston. A trip not unlike the one I’m on right now, albeit shorter and without the 9 day, all-day meeting marathon.
Anyway, I was thinking about this trip with particular reference to the USA’s apparent new policy of having border guards copy data [...]

Explanation

Thursday, May 15th, 2008

I spent some time last week at a professional conference. For the most part it was a relatively valuable use of my time, but there were significant portions of time where I was stuck sitting in a room with lots of people while a particularly boring speaker was presenting. I was without a computer–the conference [...]

A Small Challenge

Wednesday, May 14th, 2008

Answer, and explanatory story, to follow.

On the off chance that someone comments with the plaintext before I get around to telling the story, I will send them a $20 Amazon gift certificate or something like that.

Thursday Night Bookish Links

Thursday, August 23rd, 2007

Some bookish links:

Have you read Vernor Vinge’s True Names? If you haven’t then “for shame”. According to the Wikipedia entry “It was one of the earliest stories to present a fully fleshed-out concept of cyberspace, which would later be central to stories in the cyberpunk genre. Because of this, it is often referenced as a [...]