A wind of change is blowing inside the bitcoin community. For many many years the dominant ideology in bitcoin community was that open source software such as bitcoin is “secure”, and that you need to trust the infinite wisdom of the crowd who will find all the bugs and fix them, the wisdom of the …
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Dr Sue Black [UCL, saving the Bletchley Park activist] explains how much the true story of breaking Enigma during the WW2 is not at all what the movie shows us, and explains that though so many things in the movie are just totally historically inaccurate, it would be somewhat very difficult to tell the real story …
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Regin is a highly targetted malware designed to watch over just a handful of targets, with only around 100 infections uncovered since 2008, including the famous cryptographer Jean-Jacques Quisquater. It entails “a degree of technical competence rarely seen,” according to Symantec. Targeted Surveillance Known targets are government bodies, banks, small businesses and academics. Quisquater have been …
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At last… there is a sensible solution proposed which should allow bitcoin to survive and thrive in the future. There is a new paper (22 October 2014) which revisits the concept of side chains and takes it to the new level. The idea of sidechains is not new, however, the problem is, was it ever taken …
A paper at the Financial Cryptography 2012 conference explained that Bitcoin is a system which “uses no fancy cryptography, and is by no means perfect”. Cryptography can do much better than that. Now what kind of bitcoin cryptographers are going to build? Most current proposals are about making anonymous unlinkable untraceable etc etc currency. This is a …