Splunking Your Password — Is Splunk Safe for Passwords?

Splunk is a great tool. Under the hood it…

How Can I Have a 1,000 Private Keys But Just One Public Key? … Well, That’s Merkle Magic

RSA Cracking Claims!

Well, Robert Grant (CEO of Crown Sterling) has been presenting on cryptography again, and it has kept Twitter ablaze with…

The Beauty of Cybersecurity and a Post-Quantum World: A World of Lattices, Rings and Errors

Factorizing Integers with the Rho Method

I start with a statement … “Integer factorization is not in NP-Complete!”. So why is it the source of many public key methods, such as RSA? Well, it is a hard problem at the current time, but with the advent of quantum computers, it will not be.

Bob, Alice, an iPadOS and the Apple Pencil

Yesterday I was down in Plymouth to do a PhD Viva. And so…

Identity, Blockchain and Cryptography

Our current Internet is flawed, as many of the protocols were created for machine-to-machine…

Money Under The Mattress?

People have been keeping money under the mattress of centuries, and criminals know that people who keep money in…

Want To Test A Test No-one Has Ever Taken, or Ever Will Again?

I ♥ Ciphers

I love cracking ciphers! I love cracking ciphers! I love cracking ciphers! In fact, I think it is one of the main reasons that I do…