(1) As cryptographer Matthew Green told the New York Times, 'If we could get $500,000 kicked back to OpenSSL and teams like it, maybe this kind of thing won't happen again."
(2) It was great: a sort of cryptographic cowrie shell for virtual fish.
(3) For one thing, both denials conspicuously fail to include the most convincing proof of identity: a cryptographic signature already known to be used by Satoshi Nakamoto.
(4) Each bitcoin is more cryptographically complex than the previous one, requiring more computational time to "mine" it, and thus investment in electricity and use of computer hardware.
(5) However, when internet giants can be convinced to switch on cryptographic protection for the link to their users’ browsers, millions can benefit without ever having to take any action.
(6) The most immediate comparison is the Saturday Night Massacre … by firing Comey, Trump is asserting his control over the FBI on the political level.” Malcolm Nance, a former navy cryptographer and author of a book on Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election, said: “This is a Nixonian move clearly designed to take out the man who was investigating collusion with a foreign power.
(7) Read more His claim was backed up by Jon Matonis, one of the founding directors of the Bitcoin Foundation, who said he “had the opportunity to review the relevant data along three distinct lines: cryptographic, social, and technical”.
(8) They are widely available and, thanks to things like cryptographic signing, it is possible to download these packages from any server in the world (not just big ones like Github) and verify, with a high degree of confidence, that the software you’ve downloaded hasn’t been tampered with.
(9) He was withering on the subject the NSA’s undermining of the US National Institute for Standards in Technology’s cryptography projects, saying it had “radicalised mild-mannered cryptographers.
(10) This post was updated to remove a claim that Satoshi Nakamoto frequently cryptographically signed his emails.
(11) The vast majority of these passwords would be cracked in next to no time; it’s about the next worst thing you do next to no cryptographic protection at all.” This is the latest in a long line of data breaches that includes the recent TalkTalk hacks , which saw a database of millions of customers being accessed by hackers, leading to phishing attacks and scams.
(12) That is because each is unique, and has to be verified by solving the cryptographic problem to be transferred.
(13) The reports say that, in addition to undermining all of the mainstream cryptographic software used to protect online commerce, the NSA has been "collaborating with technology companies in the United States and abroad to build entry points into their products".
(14) Cryptographers with a conscience are creating some of the emerging privacy-protecting tools and services – Blackphone being one example .
(15) They are then run through a cryptographic function known as a hash, which produces a short alphanumeric string of numbers.
(16) He had been working for the Admiralty as a cryptographer since 1914 and, disliking rowdy young men, got special permission to work with an all-female team.
(17) Thomas Massie, a libertarian-minded Kentucky Republican, has authored an amendment to a forthcoming appropriations bill that blocks any funding for the National Institute of Science and Technology to “coordinate or consult” with the NSA or the Central Intelligence Agency “for the purpose of establishing cryptographic or computer standards that permit the warrantless electronic surveillance” by the spy agencies.
(18) "Flame was so advanced that only the world's top cryptographers could be able to implement it."
(19) Android 3.0 onwards has offered a setting which will encrypt the phone, using a cryptographic key generated from a user-provided passcode.
(20) When properly implemented and secured by relatively long keys, cryptographic algorithms can protect your data so thoroughly that all the computers now in existence, along with all the computers likely to ever be created, could labour until the sun went nova without uncovering the keys by “brute force” – ie trying every possible permutation of password.
Cryptography
Definition:
(n.) The act or art of writing in secret characters; also, secret characters, or cipher.
Example Sentences:
(1) Ryan Rubin, MD of global risk consultancy Protiviti, agrees: "CryptoLocker has been designed to make money using well-known, publicly available cryptography algorithms that were developed by governments and other [legitimate] bodies.
(2) Bitcoin is a digital currency based on a methods of cryptography similar to those used to protect confidential emails.
(3) When every OAP has been taught to use the net, when every homeless person has a scavenged netbook, when protocols have mutated again to hide their users' transactions with state-of-the-art cryptography, there will be no penalty harsh enough to make the tiniest dent in filesharing.
(4) He was withering on the subject the NSA’s undermining of the US National Institute for Standards in Technology’s cryptography projects, saying it had “radicalised mild-mannered cryptographers.
(5) Earlier this month the Guardian explained how NSA and GCHQ have worked to insert mathematical weaknesses into cryptography systems used to scramble internet data and other information.
(6) But almost two years after he bailed from what he calls the Australian “citizen ship” (to know Murrumu is to be involved in a constant game of verbal cryptography) there seems little doubt he is doing much more than making a merely symbolic point about Indigenous sovereignty, the destructive legacy of invasion, and the urgent need for the commonwealth to strike treaties with the first nations.
(7) On the other side, virtually every security and cryptography expert tries patiently to explain that there’s no such thing as “a back door that only the good guys can walk through” (hat tip to Bruce Schneier).
(8) The focus is on learning programming skills in HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Python and other languages, with a host of classes to then push on: from applied cryptography through to robotics AI.
(9) Whether or not a 64-bit CPU helps, it would be surprising if Apple stepped sideways and designed a 32-bit version of the A7 with the cryptography unit and Touch ID for, say, a 32-bit Touch ID-enabled low-end iPad.
(10) Allan listed and responded to eight claims isolated from the report written by researchers at the Centre of Interdisciplinary Law and ICT (ICRI) and the Computer Security and Industrial Cryptography department (Cosic) at the University of Leuven, and the media, information and telecommunication department (Smit) at Vrije Universiteit Brussels.
(11) Bitcoins are “mined” by using computers to calculate increasingly complex algorithmic formulas and uses public-key cryptography.
(12) It also emerged on Wednesday that police had called in a GCHQ cryptography expert to help crack a password used to lock files within a laptop.
(13) Christian Payne moved a monthly gathering of cryptography fans from Bletchley Park to TNMOC after what he said was indifference to the group from the trust.
(14) The currency's cryptography makes it almost immune from counterfeiting and its relative anonymity holds out the promise of being able to spend money across the internet without scrutiny.
(15) This actually happened yesterday: A professor in the computer science department at Johns Hopkins, a leading American university, had written a post on his blog, hosted on the university's servers, focused on his area of expertise, which is cryptography.
(16) The Tunny traffic was produced by a Lorenz CZ cryptography machine which the Bletchley Park mathematicians were able to replicate without ever seeing it.
(17) A lot more people have become aware of what can be done.” Cryptography expert and author Bruce Schneier said some of the techniques the NSA used to hack routers are starting to be seen in criminal cases, amongst other attack types.
(18) The report, from researchers at the Centre of Interdisciplinary Law and ICT (ICRI) and the Computer Security and Industrial Cryptography department (Cosic) at the University of Leuven, and the media, information and telecommunication department (Smit) at Vrije Universiteit Brussels, was commissioned after an original draft report revealed Facebook’s privacy policy breaches European law .
(19) Our national security will be significantly enhanced if we store less data, not more, and increase the use of strong cryptography, rather than reducing it.” Eris Industries was formerly based in the UK, but moved to Connecticut, US, after the general election.
(20) Last week's report said the data stolen by Flame was encrypted "in such a way that only the attackers can read it through strong public key cryptography.