Basically IoT Bluetooth Security is Rubbish!

I have quite a few presentations coming up, and I’m getting all ready to demo a…

Cracking: The Chinese Python Way

Did you know we can crack the RSA public key encryption method with Chinese Remainder Theory (CRT)…

Rijndael v Serpent

In 2000/2001, NIST ran a competition on the next generation symmetric key method…

Cracking RSA

Recently Crown Sterling gave a demo of cracking a 256-bit RSA key. Unfortunately this size of key is hardly a major challenge in the…

The AMSCO Cipher

Oh, I love ciphers. An interesting cipher is AMSCO, and where we create a 5x5 grid with a key. We then lay out our plaintext in a…

When Brute Force Doesn’t Work … Try Hobbies!

When it comes down to it, I’m a C programming with Linux…

On an Edinburgh Bus: A root certificate, a weak key, and SHA-1!

Cyber Warfare Targets Energy: And Nations Could Be Destroyed in Days

Here comes the Dutch Cyber Police … And It’s a Bad Day for Botnets

The Miracl(e) of Crypto Pairing

I love receiving a new crypto library, and diving in to discover its hidden secrets. The latest one is…