Math 1111: Cryptography

And here's that visualization of Girl Talk's 2010 album, All Day, that I showed in class.

Here's a 2008 New York Times piece on Girl Talk. Whether or not his fair use argument would hold up in court, it seems clear that music labels aren't particularly interested in suing him for his all-sample approach to music creation.

Interesting perspective how it's only in the news if someone's secrets are compromised, but not if their secrets are actually kept secret

And here's Bruce Schneier on that story about Apple's encryption policies thwarting justice. If you read the first piece, you should also read this one.

Here's a recent piece by security expert Bruce Schneier on quantum computing, which is different than quantum cryptography. (I conflated the two during class today.) Quantum computing is very fast computing that could be used to quickly break modern encryption schemes. Quantum cryptography involves sending messages that can't be read, since "looking" at them changes the message. Schneier offers some conjectures about where the NSA is with regard to both technologies.

Encrypted analysis of data in the cloud would allow secure access to sensitive information.

Homomorphic encryption is pretty amazing. What they're proposing in this article is a bit like having a computer analyze an encrypted novel and determining which sentences were grammatically incorrect--without even knowing what the plaintext sentences were!

Malicious adverts have been found on the UK version of the Match.com dating website. Anyone caught out by the booby-trapped ads could fall victim to ransomware, said security company Malwarebytes, which spotted the cyber-threat. The malicious ads appeared on pages of the dating site via an ad network that pipes content to Match and many other places.

This 99% Invisible podcast episode focuses on locks and lockpicking. I think you'll find some nice parallels with cryptography, especially around Kerckhoff's Principle and the idea of not knowing if your security system has been broken.

Getty In an age of surveillance anxiety, the notion of leaving your Wi-Fi network open and unprotected seems dangerously naive. But one group of activists says it can help you open up your wireless internet and not only maintain your privacy, but actually increase it in the process. At the Hackers on Planet Earth conference…

The St. Louis Cardinals are being investigated by the FBI for allegedly hacking into networks and trying to steal information about the Houston Astros, The New York Times reported Tuesday.

China will complete and put into service the world's longest quantum communication network stretching 2,000km from Beijing to Shanghai by 2016. By 2030, the Chinese network would be extended worldwide, Xinhua reported.

Cryptology is a young science. Though it has been used for thousands of years to hide secret messages, systematic study of cryptology as a science (and perhaps an art) just started around one hundr...

Cryptology is a young science. Though it has been used for thousands of years to hide secret messages, systematic study of cryptology as a science (and perhaps an art) just started around one hundr...

Example of how improving technology requires new encryption that hasn't yet been cracked

Describes the personal relationship between President Abraham Lincoln and those who encoded military telegraph messages during the Civil War