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Modern History of Cryptography Techniques
Heather writes "The encryption scheme you rely on today might be full of holes just a few years down the road. Learn how far we've come in the last few decades, and why your apps need to be ready for change. This article builds on a previous article about Enigma, Germany's WWII-era encryption system."
I see tons of articles, but no one talks about "IDEA" any more.
from my research so far it hasn't been cracked. it was a european standard, so I guess it's not favorable in the US or north america.
it's still my favorite. and maybe it enjoys a bit of "security through obscurity" these days. But I'd really like to know.
and oh, if you're going to say it was cracked, please provide reliable references with links.
Seriously, I'd really like to know.
Fiction, but still good:
Neal Stephenson - Cryptonomicon
Then to explain how Enoch Root lives so long, you'll need to read
Neal Stephenson - The Baroque Cycle Trilogy
I have been a user for about 10 years. This ends Feb 2014. The site's been ruined. I'm off. Dice, FU
how useless popular comms software is. Why should I have to register with Verisign to send an encrypted email to my girlfriend, co-workers etc. Why can't I just click a button and generate a random 128 bit key set and use PGP?
Why isn't this standard? A better question is, why can I send a MIME encoded attachement anywhere, but not a PGP encoded plain text email? Imagine the spam you could filter if you had a list of the PGP keys of all your friends and family. Imgaine if they moved email address, but there PGP key stayed the same.
If this is because Zimmerman want his 2 cents (which I can't blame him for) can't it be included in the cost of Windows and Macs, and let the rest of us download it for free? We need authenticatable (if there is such a word) emails, IMs etc yesterday. We have the technology!
Scared of flying, pointy things snce 1979!
The success of using Navajo wasn't so much due to Japan being a closed society; it was because there were no Navajo speakers outside the US at all, .
But there were anthropologists, researchers, people who studied Navajo language etc. Japan "closedness" resulted in comparatively low interest in anthropology in general - while in pre-WWII European countries, including Poland, there were people studying alien cultures just for sake of interest in otherness as such. There are no native Nambikwara speakers outside Brasil but in case of war between Brasil and France, French code breakers could break the "Nambikwara code" thanks to works done on Nambikwara by Claude Levi-Strauss. The point is that there were no Levi-Strausses in Japan.