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  1. A mysterious player has been crushing opponents in high-stakes online poker: http://bit.ly/89e4rs Interesting read via @adamshostack 4:44 PM Nov 22nd from web
  2. Cost of reading URLs is orders of magnitude more than phishing losses, says "Rational Rejection of Security Advice": http://bit.ly/DSDBE 10:55 AM Nov 19th from web
  3. "Cryptographic Cloud Storage" whitepaper by Microsoft Crypto Research group: http://bit.ly/3L3M0l 3:29 PM Nov 12th from web
  4. Norbt uses client-side Javascript to decrypt web pages: https://norbt.com/ Unfortunately, you need to trust Norbt's Javascript to be honest. 5:38 PM Nov 11th from web
  5. "The Matrix" for moths: Sensors implanted in moths able to sense and harvest power from neural activity http://bit.ly/3A9C2n (cc @karllong) 2:46 PM Nov 9th from web
  6. ECC2k-130 broken by DJB and crew: http://eprint.iacr.org/2009... 11:42 AM Nov 8th from Tweetie
  7. Keep your browser plug-ins up to date: http://secbrowsing.appspot.... (via @mavrommatis) 4:44 PM Nov 5th from web
  8. "Breaking and making quantum money" looks interesting. Has the property that even banks cannot produce quantum money with same ID numbers. 11:17 AM Nov 5th from web
  9. Innovations in Computer Science accepted papers announced: http://bit.ly/DhkXV 11:08 AM Nov 5th from web
  10. Google Dashboard presents privacy policies and settings all in one place: http://bit.ly/40VaFl 9:31 AM Nov 5th from web
  11. Created a Google New cryptography section: http://bit.ly/1JdZop 4:00 PM Nov 4th from web
  12. Amir Pnueli died today. Won the 1996 Turing award for work in temporal logic and system verification (via @fortnow) 12:20 PM Nov 3rd from web
  13. "Good Math, Bad Math" by @MarkCC calls out Cantor uncountability proof crackpot. Epic troll thread ensues: http://bit.ly/4ztyrY 10:34 PM Nov 2nd from web
  14. @pbarreto No, I mean "private" as in votes are secret and receipt-free. The code is open source and available online: http://bit.ly/4xgdkS 1:20 PM Nov 2nd from web in reply to pbarreto
  15. First local government election using an auditable, private cryptographic protocol by Scantegrity: http://bit.ly/2Klm7z http://bit.ly/nqmBg 12:27 PM Nov 2nd from web
  16. An Amazon PayPhrase will be disabled after too many failed PIN attempts. I was looking forward to receiving a random item in the mail. 4:05 PM Oct 29th from web
  17. I just set up an Amazon PayPhrase: "Calamitous Intent". First person to guess the PIN can buy anything for $10 and ship it to my office. Go! 2:44 PM Oct 29th from web
  18. Distilling Free-Form Natural Laws from Experimental Data: http://bit.ly/4a0U8y Interesting machine learning of physics from just data. 6:22 PM Oct 26th from web
  19. IBM video on Homomorphic Encryption: http://bit.ly/yvNbL Features Tal Rabin and Craig Gentry. Cameos by Halevi, Jutla, Krawczyk, & VinodV. 5:36 PM Oct 23rd from web
  20. Malware rewrites online bank statements to hide theft and wires random amounts to "mule" accounts like a mix net: http://bit.ly/2hxqvy 10:23 AM Sep 30th from web
  • Name Steve Weis
  • Location The Mission, San Francisco
  • Web http://saweis.net
  • Bio Software engineer with a focus on cryptography, security, and theory.
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