Making sense of quantum annealing
One of the tougher things about writing and reading about quantum mechanics is keeping up with how the meaning of some words change as they graduate from being used in the realm of classical mechanics…
cryptography
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New National Encryption Policy doesn't seem to like encryption
A new draft National Encryption Policy put out by the Department of Electronics and Information Technology seeks to define the various encryption standards allowable on data originating from the count…
Two of Alan Turing’s WW-II papers are now in the public domain
The Wire May 21, 2015 A scientific paper written by Alan Turing, the brilliant computer scientist who cracked the Enigma code during the Second World War and bolstered Britain’s war efforts, was rece…
The federation of our digital identities
Facebook, Twitter, email, WordPress, Instagram, online banking, the list goes on... Offline, you're one person maintaining (presumably) one identity. On the web, you have many of them. All of them…
Inspecting nuclear warheads like they were passwords
Nuclear weapon inspectors have a weighty but tricky job. An inspecting state relies on them to verify if a weapon is a nuclear warhead, but the state whose weapons are being inspected doesn't want…
Trying to understand bitcoins
In a 2008 paper, a Japanese programmer, Satoshi Nakamoto, introduced an alternate form of currency that he called bitcoins. His justifications were the problems plaguing contemporary digital commerce.…