Quantum Lab: Scientists are fabricating quantum photonic circuits—consisting of waveguides and other elements—to manipulate single photons for future quantum communications and processing.Oak Ridge National Laboratory / Flickr Nautilus Members enjoy an ad-free experience. Log in…
Cybersecurity experts tracing money paid by American businesses to Russian ransomware gangs found it led to one of Moscow’s most prestigious addresses.
"NFTs" have hit the mainstream news with the sale of an NFT based digital artwork for $69 million. I thought I'd write up an explainer. Spec...
For those who are just wading into the crypto territory, here’s a basic explainer on how the computer science behind these systems work.
The long read: Last year, three cryptocurrency enthusiasts bought a cruise ship. They named it the Satoshi, and dreamed of starting a floating libertarian utopia. It didn’t work out
A trip through the intentionally unseeable World of Hiding Data in Imagery
A new study shows that quantum technology will catch up with today’s encryption standards much sooner than expected. That should worry anybody who needs to store data securely for 25 years or so.
A Not Boring x Jill Carlson Collab on Moon Math, Privacy, and Hype
In 2016 North Korean hackers planned a $1bn raid on Bangladesh's national bank and came within an inch of success. But how did they do it?
Fang-Pen Lin's blog about programming
How did Ruja Ignatova make $4bn selling her fake cryptocurrency to the world - and where did she go?
Whitfield Diffie and Martin Hellman are researchers who invented a safe method to communicate a password. Their 1976 paper opens with the…
In October 2020, Miami-based art collector Pablo Rodriguez-Fraile spent almost $67,000 on a 10-second video artwork that he could have watched for free online. Last week, he sold it for $6.6 million.
According to Elliptic’s analysis, the founder of one of the most popular carding marketplaces, Joker’s Stash, has retired having amassed a fortune of over $1 billion.
Quantum computers could make encryption a thing of the past, but 15 contenders are trying to prove they have what it takes to safeguard your data.
The distributed ledger technology that started with bitcoin is rapidly becoming a crowdsourced system for all types of verification. Could it replace notary publics, manual vote recounts, and the way banks manage transactions?
After decades of conflict in North Kosovo, all it’s taken for Serb and Albanian politicians to put aside their resentments is the get-rich-quick prospect of cryptomining.
Intro If you're into Cryptography For Beginners, you're in the right place. Maybe you're j...
the official Rust and C implementations of the BLAKE3 cryptographic hash function - BLAKE3-team/BLAKE3
An international team claims its perfect secrecy cryptography is made unbreakable by physics
The race is on to create new ways to protect data and communications from the threat posed by super-powerful quantum computers.
Former U.S. Army Green Beret and a16z crypto deal partner, Alex Pruden served in Iraq, Afghanistan, Kuwait, and Turkey. During this time, he saw first-hand that underlying the Syrian refugee crisis, the rise of radical extremism, and other global conflicts was a lack of trusted…
In 25 concise steps, you will learn the basics of blockchain technology. No mathematical formulas, program code, or computer science jargon are used. No previous knowledge in computer science, mathematics, programming, or cryptography is required. Terminology is explained…
LitePaper transforms the complex world of crypto, bitcoin and web3 into beautiful bundles of learning.
A simple, accessible recommendation for key sizes and recommended algorithms for various cryptographic algorithms.
How to use polynomials to share secrets, and how to verify that the secret has been shared without unlocking it.
Certificates and public key infrastructure (PKI) are hard. No shit, right? I know a lot of smart people who''ve avoided this particular rabbit hole. Eventually, I was forced to learn this stuff because of what it enables: PKI lets you define a system cryptographically. It''s…
Let's Encrypt does not currently generate Elliptic Curve certificates. Here's how to obtain one.
Subtle changes to letter shapes can embed messages
Here’s a list of crypto readings and resources (2018-2019). It’s organized from building blocks and basics; foundations (& history); and key concepts — followed by specific topics such as governance; privacy and security; scaling; consensus and governance…
Imperfect Silicon, Near-Perfect Security Physically unclonable functions (PUF) seem tailor-made for IoT security.
Hello all and welcome to Part 3 of building the JackBlockChain — JBC. Quick past intro, in Part 1 I coded and went over the top level math and requirements for a single node to mine its own b…
Cryptographers have researched zero-knowledge proofs for two decades, but the technique is only just now poised to redefine the concept of online privacy.
Last night I figured out what might kill crypto. And it’s not a black swan event. History suggests it’s the natural end of the path we’re on today.
Brian Krebs / Krebs on Security: An investigation details a $243M crypto heist in August 2024 where attackers used a phone-based social engineering attack on a user of Gemini's crypto exchange