Spontaneous discrete protest movement of an individual against the mafias which are in charge of cyber-security, cryptography research and education at large worldwide. Students asked me what is my protest against and I have responded: It is against hate. All the hate you receive because you are different and you don’t have the same ideas …
I have written an elementary tutorial and a first proof of concept about how to backdoor a block cipher in a quite general setting. Potentially it applies to any block cipher. Success is not guaranteed though, see the paper. ADDED 2 JAN 2019: a new paper shows that invariants of higher degree are substantially more powerful. …
These companies (Facebook, Google, etc) known as Internet Giants violate our privacy everyday and they have corrupted our minds and our economy worldwide. They have built a totalitarian dystopian future which is here already, where humans and business alike are enslaved by a digital mafia which aims at controlling and taxing the whole global economy through mass surveillance and …
All owners of EOS must take these steps before June 1st, or they will lose their tokens [they will fail to transfer to the new blockchain]. US citizens are apparently unable to hold EOS tokens legally. 5 billion dollars is at risk of loss at the moment.
Wicked, it seems that there is an epidemic of fake volume, and that it comes from China primarily. One way to see which crypto coins are NOT scams is to look at the source code dev statistics, here are some nice stats.
A large number of UCL academics have yesterday started a large scale strike lasting for many weeks. These people are sacrificing their salary [UCL will cut their pay down] and there is a strong support for the strike. The strike is organised on the premises that our employer, UCL, are? cutting down their pension contributions or ending guaranteed income schemes …
In the recent crazy wave of ICOs we hear every day that investors should be warned and there are lots of scams or that it is unlikely that ICOs can deliver. So the question is how do you tell apart a “good ICO” from a bad one? It is a difficult question, but let us …
A proportion estimated to be as high as 70% of bitcoin mining chips used worldwide has a backdoor which allows one to trace the miners. In addition there is a malicious remote shutdown attack which could be triggered by a MITM attacker.
Schneier wrote: 8,761 classified CIA documents […] 2012-2016 […]it sounds like this cache of documents wasn’t taken from the CIA and given to WikiLeaks for publication, but has been passed around the community for a while — and incidentally some part of the cache was passed to WikiLeaks. […] extraordinary collection […] several hundred million lines …
When Marc Stevens and a team of researchers from Google have finally found a collision for SHA-1, which we have been expecting for longer than 10 years, somebody who is apparently none of these people, has apparently used it to obtain 2.5 BTC prize created by Peter Todd.