[cryptography] Cryptographer Adi Shamir Prevented from Attending NSA History Conference

http://blogs.fas.org/secrecy/2013/10/shamir/ Cryptographer Adi Shamir Prevented from Attending NSA History Conference Categories: Science, Secrecy In this email message to colleagues, Israeli cryptographer Adi Shamir recounts the difficulties he faced in getting a visa to attend the 2013

Re: [cryptography] Cryptographer Adi Shamir Prevented from Attending NSA History Conference

I doubt this is anything to do with cryptography. I would suspect it is more to do with jobs / science debate that most countries have every time the jobs market gets tough or the science numbers start to look like banana republic. The general knee-jerk response to MSM angst by the

Re: [cryptography] One Time Pad Cryptanalysis

Ben Laurie b...@links.org wrote: | Encryption is time-consuming; compressing a file before encryption | speeds up the process. I haven't benchmarked it, but I find it unlikely that compression is faster than encryption. It can be if weak compression is acceptable. That may not be worth

[cryptography] Vernam, Mauborgne, Friedman: The One-Time Pad and the Index of Coincidence

Steven Bellovin Talk at NSA History Conference today: Vernam, Mauborgne, Friedman: The One-Time Pad and the Index of Coincidence https://www.cs.columbia.edu/%7Esmb/talks/VernamMauborgneFriedman.pdfhttps://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb/talks/VernamMauborgneFriedman.pdf