Posts Tagged ‘cryptography’

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.