The Factor Circumstance →
News, via Dan Goodin, writing at our beloved ArsTechnica, detailing an enormous factorization flaw within Infeneon-based 2048-bit RSA keys tied to a widening number of encryption products worldwide. The implications are equally enormous. H/T
'The researchers who uncovered the Infineon library flaw questioned whether the secrecy required by some of the certification process played a role. They wrote: Our work highlights the dangers of keeping the design secret and the implementation closed-source, even if both are thoroughly analyzed and certified by experts. The lack of public information causes a delay in the discovery of flaws (and hinders the process of checking for them), thereby increasing the number of already deployed and affected devices at the time of detection.' - via Dan Goodin at ArsTechnica
Pecunia Cryptem Caro Comedenti →
The capability of Bitcoin to gravitate to the outer fringes is fundamentally astounding...
Seth Juarez's 'Inside Coco Framework, the Foundation of Blockchain for Enterprise with , Mark Russinovich' →
Another well crafted video explaining the Coco Framwwork and Blockchain componentry from Seth Juarez and Mark Russinovich.
Seth Juarez's 'An Introduction to Blockchain with Mark Russinovich' →
Very well crafted, well presented and on target video, comprising blockchain content from Seth Juarez and Mark Russinovich. Deemed today's Must View video. Enjoy (and consider having your parents, grandparents and most of all your kids watch as well).
Meet Alice and Bob →
Commence the Crackage →
via Mohit Kumar's superlative reporting at THN, comes word of the successful crack of the GPG Libgcrypt (utilizing a flaw within the lib), now noted as CVE-2017-7526; an additional annoucement has been published at the GPG site.
Le Quanta des Jumeaux Chinois →
Roland Pease - writing for the BBC Radio Science Unit, has crafted this well-reported piece, targeting the PRC's Micius satellite, engineered to provision the fundamentals of an ostensibly 'unbreakable' crypto-mehodology, i.e., quantum entanglement (in this case, wierding twins)...
"Chinese scientists have pulled off a major feat with one of the sub-atomic world's weirdest phenomena: photons that behave like twins and experience the same things simultaneously, even over great distances." - via Phys.org
Antbleed, The Bitcoin Backdoor
Catalin Cimpanu writing at Bleeping Computer, regales us with the tale of Antbleed, a newly discovered tidbit of backdoor code found on Bitcoin mining devices. Oops.
Blockchain'ed →
Screed of the Week, via Aeon, discussing the hard fork of Ethereum, and the Fall of Trust (at least in cryptocurrency). Certainly today's MustRead.
Voynich Manuscript, Published by Yale University Press →
Behold, Yale University Press has published a modern facsimile replication of the Voynich Manuscript. H/T
Bitcoin, Upper Limit Reached? →
Eric Miller has created a new project visualizing the cryptocurrency otherwise-known-as Bitcoin's Blockchain utilization in near realtime. Examine Eric's project ReadMe and code repository at GitHub, for additional - and vital - information. Outstanding, indeed.
Automated Cryptographic Validation Protocol (ACVP) →
Via Richard Chirgwin writing at El Reg, detailing the efforts by NIST (here's the project page)(and their private industry partner Cisco) to automate cryptographic validation.