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Internet architects propose encrypting all the world’s Web traffic
Next-gen HTTP calls for default crypto to stop spying by spooks and criminals.
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Masonic conspiracy or MI6 recruitment tool? Internet mystery Cicada 3301 starts up again
A mysterious cryptography competition that claims to be searching for “highly intelligent individuals” has apparently started a third annual round of recruitment. Cicada 3301 (the name given to both the scavenger hunt and the unknown organisation responsible for the puzzles) first began in January 2012, baffling participants with a series of puzzles and codes spread across the internet and various locations worldwide.
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Kelly Became Top Christie Aide After Decade in Local Politics
Bridget Anne Kelly, the aide to New Jersey Governor Chris Christie who was fired today after ordering traffic congestion in a city whose mayor didn’t endorse her boss, rose to work the state’s top office after more than 10 years in local politics.
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Yesterday, The Internet Solved a 20-year-old Mystery
Back in October, Daniel Drucker told the TLDR podcast he was looking through his recently deceased dad's computer when he found a document that contained only joke punchlines. It only took a few hours for the internet to reunite the punchlines with their long-lost setups.
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Meet The Man Who Solved The Mysterious Cicada 3301 Puzzle
It's the most baffling and enigmatic mystery on the Internet with promises of epiphany if you solve it. But just how hard is it to crack the Cicada...
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Possible hidden Latin warning about NSA in Truecrypt's suicide note
When the anonymous authors of the Truecrypt security tool mysteriously yanked their software last month, there was widespread suspicion that they had been ordered by the NSA to secretly compromise their software.
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Cicada: Solving the Web's Deepest Mystery
Marcus Wanner needed a little adventure in his life. A skinny 15-year-old brainiac with wire-frame glasses and wavy brown hair, he was the eldest of five, home-schooled by their mother, a devout Catholic, near Roanoke, Virginia. Shuttling Marcus between home, church and the Boy Scouts seemed like the best way to keep him away from trouble (and girls). "I missed out on a lot," he recalls with a sigh. "I didn't get out much."
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Untangling Toshibas unbreakable encryption
Claims Toshiba is developing secure quantum cryptography should be taken with a quantum of salt, a number of cybersecurity experts say.
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The man making puzzles for hackers
If you want to know how to keep 16,000 geeks entertained, ask the Lost Boy aka Ryan Clarke. He's the cryptographer and puzzle master at Def Con, the huge annual international conference for hackers, taking place again in Las Vegas. The fact that Def Con has a puzzle master at all is just one of the many reasons this conference is unlike any other.
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Cuba's Mysterious 'Numbers Station' Is Still on the Air
On August 18 at 22:00 UTC, I heard a government intelligence agency transferring encrypted messages to spies over the radio. Or at least, that's the most common explanation for what I heard. I dialed to the correct frequency—17480 kHz—using an internet-connected radio tuner maintained by a university in the Netherlands. Suddenly, over waves of static, an eerily-robotic woman's voice began speaking a series of five-digit number sequences in Spanish.
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Physicists set quantum record by using photons to carry messages from electrons almost 2 kilometers apart
Researchers from Stanford have advanced a long-standing problem in quantum physics – how to send "entangled" particles over long distances. Their work is described in the online edition of Nature Communications. Scientists and engineers are interested in the practical application of this technology to make quantum networks that can send highly secure information over long distances – a capability that also makes the technology appealing to governments, banks and militaries.
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The Moral Failure of Computer Scientists
In the 1950s, a group of scientists spoke out against the dangers of nuclear weapons. Should cryptographers take on the surveillance state? By Kaven Waddell.
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The Black Chamber
The man who made Edward Snowden inevitable.
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From letters to apps, the secret code language of lovers
How generations of Valentines have invented ways of writing for one reader alone. By Britt Peterson.
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The Long and Winding History of Encryption
The technology that keeps your text messages private had its start on the banks of the Tigris River, 3500 years ago. By Kaveh Waddell.
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Three ‘twisted’ photons in 3 dimensions
Researchers at the Institute of Quantum Optics and Quantum Information, the University of Vienna, and the Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona have achieved a new milestone in quantum physics: they were able to entangle three particles of light in a high-dimensional quantum property related to the 'twist' of their wavefront structure.
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Senator: let’s fix “third-party doctrine” that enabled NSA mass snooping
Q&A: Ars sits down with Oregon’s outspoken advocate of strong crypto, Sen. Ron Wyden. (Apr. 3)
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Jane Fawcett, British code-breaker during World War II, dies at 95
She deciphered a German message that led to one of Britain’s greatest naval victories, the sinking of the battleship Bismarck. By Matt Schudel.
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NSA could put undetectable “trapdoors” in millions of crypto keys
Technique allows attackers to passively decrypt Diffie-Hellman protected data. By Dan Goodin.
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China’s quantum satellite could make data breaches a thing of the past
The Micius satellite will encrypt data using fundamental laws of physics rather than crackable codes. By Robert Young.
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