There is abundant literature on the security of Data Encryption Standard (DES or 3DES). Today we have released a new way to attack this cipher, see Section 11 in here. Anyone who reads this paper should immediately see that the high confidence which have developed over decades in research community about our ability to design secure block …
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A bug which allows unlimited creation of coins was found and fixed in ZeroCash. It is a sophisticated and subtle security flaw. We read that: To exploit the counterfeiting vulnerability, an attacker would have needed to possess information found in the large MPC protocol transcript that was made available shortly after the launch of Zcash. …
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On January 3rd we celebrate 10 years since bitcoin network started operation. Long live all crypto currencies, especially those which actually are real innovators, and bring new technology such as advanced crypto techniques to the market. Let a thousand crypto flowers bloom. P.S. It is also 20 years and 2 days after the introduction of …
A web page shows that many crypto currencies lack protection against 51% attacks. For example to double spend in Dash, one needs to pay only 14K$ per hour. To double spend in bitcoin private, 1000$ will suffice. And course benefits of double spending can easily outweigh the costs. In addition some of the higher numbers are questionable. There …
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.
Written by UCL student Maxine Emuobosa: Beginners Guide. And here is another one made by UCL student Killian Davitt.
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.
All you need to know in one page, see here.
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 …
Here it is, it covers primarily questions about regulation and investor protection. It stresses the fact that ICOs are transforming the way in which funding of new business ventures is done. Recommended for anyone interested in investing in ICOs or planning an ICO.