UK Prime Minister apologizes for Alan Turing's mistreatment.

Not strictly about crypto, but certainly about a very famous cryptanalyst. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8249792.stm Perry -- Perry E. Metzgerpe...@piermont.com - The Cryptography Mailing List Unsubscrib

Re: Privacy Plug-In Fakes out Facebook

[Moderator's note: I don't want an extended discussion on this topic, but I'll allow this one message through. --Perry] Another fine example of throwing cryptography at a behavioral problem. And why should I trust a 3rd party server to protect the encryption keys I know that Facebook privacy

Google Plans Tools to Help News Media Charge for Content

Stands to reason. Google's in the advertisement microbilling business already. Turn it upside down and you get book-entry micropayments. Cheers, RAH --- - Bits Blog -

Privacy Plug-In Fakes out Facebook

Begin forwarded message: From: Eugen Leitl Date: September 10, 2009 5:49:20 AM GMT-04:00 To: cypherpu...@al-qaeda.net, i...@postbiota.org Subject: Privacy Plug-In Fakes out Facebook http://www.technologyreview.com/printer_friendly_article.aspx?id=23405&channel=web§ion= Wednesday, September 0

Serpent close to AES speed thanks to SSE2

http://www.randombit.net/bitbashing/programming/serpent_in_simd.html Wed, 09 Sep 2009 Speeding up Serpent: SIMD Edition The Serpent block cipher was one of the 5 finalists in the AES competition, and is widely thought to be the most secure of them due to its conservative design. It was also con