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How the “Frontier” Became the Slogan of Uncontrolled AI
Artificial intelligence (AI) has been billed as the next frontier of humanity: the newly available expanse whose exploration …
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When Will We See Collisions for SHA-1?
On a NIST-sponsored hash function mailing list, Jesse Walker (from Intel; also a member of the Skein team) did some back-of-the-envelope calculations to estimate...
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Maps Showing Spread of ZeroAccess Botnet
The folks at F-Secure have plotted ZeroAccess infections across the U.S. and across Europe. It's interesting to see, but I'm curious to see the data normalized...
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Authentication Stories
Anecdotes from Asia on seals versus signatures on official documents.
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Keccak is SHA-3
NIST has just announced that Keccak has been selected as SHA-3. It's a fine choice. I'm glad that SHA-3 is nothing like the SHA-2 family; something completely...
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2013 U.S. Homeland Security Budget
Among other findings in this CBO report: Funding for homeland security has dropped somewhat from its 2009 peak of $76 billion, in inflation-adjusted terms; funding...
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Scary iPhone Malware Story
This story sounds pretty scary: Developed by Robert Templeman at the Naval Surface Warfare Center in Indiana and a few buddies from Indiana University, PlaceRader...
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Replacing Alice and Bob
A proposal to replace cryptography's Alice and Bob with Sita and Rama: Any book on cryptography invariably involves the characters Alice and Bob. It is always...
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Using Agent-Based Simulations to Evaluate Security Systems
Kay Hamacher and Stefan Katzenbeisser, "Public Security: Simulations Need to Replace Conventional Wisdom," New Security Paradigms Workshop, 2011. Abstract: Is...
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Quantum Cryptography
Long article on quantum cryptography and cryptanalysis.
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Security Vulnerability in Windows 8 Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI)
This is the first one discovered, I think.
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SHA-3 to Be Announced
NIST is about to announce the new hash algorithm that will become SHA-3. This is the result of a six-year competition, and my own Skein is one of the five remaining...
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Friday Squid Blogging: Beached Firefly Squid
Pretty photo of firefly squid beached along a coast. I've written about firefly squid before. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security...
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Another Review of Liars and Outliers
I usually don't post reviews of Liars and Outliers -- they're all here -- but I am particularly proud of this one.
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Accountable Algorithms
Ed Felten has two posts about accountable algorithms. Good stuff.
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The NSA and the Risk of Off-the-Shelf Devices
Interesting article on how the NSA is approaching risk in the era of cool consumer devices. There's a discussion of the president's network-disabled iPad, and...
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