Information Security with Occasional Forays into Other Realms
Claude Shannon, PhD, 1916 - 2001
via Greg Ross, writing at his superb blog Futility Closet, comes this anecdote detailing an interesting proposal offered in 1978 to solve a vexing problem wrangled with adroit virtuosity by Claude Shannon, PhD. Cetainly Today's Must Read.
via the superb research efforts by Wenyao Xu, PhD , Feng Lin PhD and Zhanpeng Jin PhD - all Professors of Computer Science and Engineering, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York, comes a story of both exacting scientific method and incredible rigor, in which, the future of passwords may very well be revealed. Read it and weep for our advesaries.
Originally Published on Reddit
Ladies and Gentlemen, Girls and Boys, behold the genius of Evan Booth, the Jittery MacGyver. Absolutely astonishing.
Requiescat in Pace: John Forbes Nash, Jr., (1928 - 2015) and Alicia (nee Lopez-Harrison de Lardé) Nash (1933 - 2015).
via Sara Sorcher, writing at the Christian Science Monitor, for the Monitor's new Passcode department, comes the story of Plan X, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency's (DARPA) push into proper management of the cyberwar battlespace.
In which, we are enthralled by Le Bon Professeur Jules Verne. Via a typically superb post - crafted by Nick Pelling at his Tremendous Cipher Mysteries site; further, by way of a fascinating article in the United States Army Signal Corps Bulletin of April to June 1940 detailing Monsieur Verne's prediliction for both transpositional and Vigenère ciphers. Outstanding.
In an astonishing turn of luck, Alan Turing's Banbury Notes have turned up as roof insulation, at Beltchley Park's Hut 6. Reportedly, the notes were discovered during the renovation of the Hut in 2013.