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Jacob Ziv — The Man Who Compressed The World
Jacob Ziv — The Man Who Compressed The World
I am so pleased to see that Jacob Ziv has received the IEEE Medal of Honor. Along with Abraham Lempel be created two lossless compression…
Prof Bill Buchanan OBE
Jan 18
Trusted Generation of Public Keys — Based on Your Identity
Trusted Generation of Public Keys — Based on Your Identity
Identity-based Encryption (IBE) is an alternative to PKI, and involves generating the encryption key from a piece of identity for the…
Prof Bill Buchanan OBE
Jan 17
Koblitz and Miller Built The Foundation of Security For Our Internet
Koblitz and Miller Built The Foundation of Security For Our Internet
Your on-line security depends fundamentally on a beautiful little curve: an elliptic curve. It has been a savour for Cybersecurity in the…
Prof Bill Buchanan OBE
Jan 12
An iPad and a RPI
An iPad and a RPI
Why we don’t give every child at school is beyond me. As Computer Science at school slips every year, we may be losing another generation…
Prof Bill Buchanan OBE
Jan 4
Galios Fields — GF(2^n)
Galios Fields — GF(2^n)
In 1831, Évariste Galois died of dueling wounds at the age of 20, but left a great legacy. While he was a teenager he worked on…
Prof Bill Buchanan OBE
Jan 3
Conference Keying — From Napier’s Logs to Elliptic Curves
Conference Keying — From Napier’s Logs to Elliptic Curves
Discrete logarithm methods -such as with Diffie-Hellman — are not efficient these days as the prime number often has 2,048 bits or more…
Prof Bill Buchanan OBE
Dec 31, 2020
2020 … The Year of Zoom …
2020 … The Year of Zoom …
Well. At this time of the year, we would have lots of photos of the things we have been doing over the year, but not this year. Rather…
Prof Bill Buchanan OBE
Dec 30, 2020
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