Snake-Oil Research in Nature Snake-oil isn’t only in commercial products. Here’s a piece of research published (behind a paywall) in Nature that’s just full of it. The article suggests using chaos in an electro-optical system to generate a pseudo-random light sequence, which is then added to the message to protect it from interception. Now, the idea of using chaos to build encryption systems has b
Switzerland Protects its Vote with Quantum Cryptography This is so silly I wasn’t going to even bother blogging about it. But the sheer number of news stories has made me change my mind. Basically, the Swiss company ID Quantique convinced the Swiss government to use quantum cryptography to protect vote transmissions during their October 21 election. It was a great publicity stunt, and the news art
New Voting Protocol Interesting voting protocol from Ron Rivest: Abstract: We present a new paper-based voting method with attractive security properties. Not only can each voter verify that her vote is recorded as she intended, but she gets a “receipt” that she can take home that can be used later to verify that her vote is actually included in the final tally. Her receipt, however, does not allo
version 1.2, 5/26/99 Designed by Bruce Schneier Featured in Neal Stephenson’s Cryptonomicon This page has been translated into German by Nils Plaumann, into French by Fernandes Gilbert, into Spanish by Jesús Cea Avión, into Italian by Silvio Coccaro, and into Czech by Michal Altair Valášek. In Neal Stephenson’s novel Cryptonomicon, the character Enoch Root describes a cryptosystem code-named “Pont
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