9 Best Articles in 2021
HackerNoon
Blockchain Cryptography Explained to a 9-Year-Old
HackerNoon
5 min read · 38 saves · 2019-07-10 · A beginner’s guide to blockchain cryptography
The New York Times
Cryptography Pioneers Win Turing Award
The New York Times
3 min read · 31 saves · From 2017 · In the 1970s, Whitfield Diffie and Martin E. Hellman invented the technology that underpins web commerce.
Matthew Green
Why I’m done with Chrome
Matthew Green
296 saves · From 2018 · This blog is mainly reserved for cryptography, and I try to avoid filling it with random “someone is wrong on the Internet” posts. After all, that’s what Twitter is for! But from …
Stanford University
A Graduate Course in Applied Cryptography
Stanford University
1 min read · 15 saves · From 2018 · Part I: Secret key cryptography Introduction Encryption Stream ciphers Block ciphers Chosen plaintext attacks Message integrity Message integrity from universal hashing Message integrity from…
WIRED
Google Turns to Retro Cryptography to Keep Datasets Private
WIRED
3 min read · 33 saves · 2019-06-19 · Google's Private Join and Compute will let companies compare notes without divulging sensitive information.
ZDNet
Singapore researchers tapping quantum cryptography to enhance network encryption
ZDNet
2 min read · 61 saves · 2020-05-30 · ST Engineering and National University of Singapore are looking to tap quantum cryptography technology to build network encryption tools, so these will be ready to mitigate security risks that may…
Backchannel
Love in the Time of Cryptography
Backchannel
10 min read · 75 saves · From 2017 · Most romances today have deep digital footprints. This one didn’t — and to the state, that was a problem.
MIT Technology Review
An algorithm that can spot cause and effect could supercharge medical AI
MIT Technology Review
3 min read · 192 saves · 2020-02-05 · The technique, inspired by quantum cryptography, would allow large medical databases to be tapped for causal links
WIRED
The Clever Cryptography Behind Apple's 'Find My' Feature
WIRED
4 min read · 108 saves · 2019-06-05 · Apple says an elaborate rotating key scheme will soon let you track down your stolen laptop, but not let anyone track you. Not even Apple.
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Forbes
Startup: Only Quantum Cryptography Can Save The $100 Trillion Global Digital Economy
Forbes
3 min read · Mar 7th · This is essentially quantum security as a cloud service, at gigabits per second.
hynek.me
Semantic Versioning Will Not Save You
hynek.me
8 min read · 13 saves · Mar 2nd · The widely used Python package cryptography changed their build system to use Rust for low-level code which caused an emotional GitHub thread. Enthusiasts of 32-bit hardware from the 1990s aside,…
ZDNet
The future of data privacy: confidential computing, quantum safe cryptography take center stage
ZDNet
4 min read · Mar 12th · IBM is working on future-proof encryption methods able to keep our data safe both in storage and active use.
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Quanta Magazine
How the EverCrypt Library Creates Hacker-Proof Cryptography
Quanta Magazine
4 min read · 28 saves · From 2019 · Researchers have just released hacker-proof cryptographic code — programs with the same level of invincibility as a mathematical proof.
Bloomberg
‘Mind-Boggling’ Math Could Make Blockchain Work for Wall Street
Bloomberg
7 min read · 191 saves · From 2017 · A major breakthrough in cryptography may have solved one of the biggest obstacles to using blockchain technology on Wall Street: keeping transaction data private.
Quanta Magazine
Computer Scientists Achieve ‘Crown Jewel’ of Cryptography
Quanta Magazine
6 min read · 120 saves · 2020-11-10 · A cryptographic master tool called indistinguishability obfuscation has for years seemed too good to be true. Three researchers have figured out that it can work.
righto.com
Mining Bitcoin with pencil and paper: 0.67 hashes per day
righto.com
~13 min read · 147 saves · From 2014 · This article is now available in Russian: Майним Bitcoin с помощью бумаги и ручки . I decided to see how practical it would be to mine Bit...
OneZero
The Untold Story of the Man That Made Mainstream Encryption Possible
OneZero
~15 min read · 34 saves · 2020-03-03 · Meet Whit Diffie, the man who invented public key cryptography and brought encryption to the masses
medium.com
How Cryptography Redefines Private Property
medium.com
~11 min read · 11 saves · From 2018 · We will explore the pivotal role public-key cryptography plays in the creation of digital hard money & its ramifications on society at…
Ars Technica
Millions of high-security crypto keys crippled by newly discovered flaw
Ars Technica
8 min read · 185 saves · From 2017 · Factorization weakness lets attackers impersonate key holders and decrypt their data.
oleganza.com
The renaissance of cryptography
oleganza.com
2 min read · 11 saves · From 2018 · This is a declaration of a new era.
Ars Technica UK
Google teaches “AIs” to invent their own crypto and avoid eavesdropping
Ars Technica UK
3 min read · 134 saves · From 2016 · Neural networks seem good at devising crypto methods; less good at codebreaking.
