Cryptography articles

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  Quantum network can transmit secure video in real-time, been active for 2.5 years

  By Carl Franzen on May 6, 2013 06:28 pm + 26 comments

  It's not quite a quantum internet — yet. But researchers at Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Continue reading…

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  Gold 2.0: can code and competition build a better Bitcoin?

  By Joshua Kopstein on April 23, 2013 09:30 am + 45 comments

  Bitcoin has had a wild ride these past few months. The stateless digital currency’s price has Continue reading…

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  Quantum-encrypted information transmitted by flying plane for first time

  By Carl Franzen on April 2, 2013 05:50 pm + 14 comments

  In a boost to future secret agents and a blow to their would-be eavesdroppers, German researchers Continue reading…

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  Technical problems cause Bitcoin to plummet from record high, Mt. Gox suspends deposits

  By Jeff Blagdon on March 12, 2013 02:28 am + 83 comments

  Technical problems caused preeminent Bitcoin exchange Mt. Gox to suspend deposits today, and led to Continue reading…

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  Alan Turing's 100th birthday celebrated with Science Museum exhibition, words from Vint Cerf

  By Kimber Streams on June 18, 2012 02:16 pm + 23 comments

  June 23rd marks the centenary of Alan Turing's birth, and technologists across the world are Continue reading…

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  Two of Alan Turing's wartime cryptography papers released

  By Adi Robertson on April 23, 2012 08:58 am + 2 comments

  Two papers written during World War II by computing forefather Alan Turing have been released to The Continue reading…

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  The Enigma machine, on the centenary of the man who brought it down

  By Vlad Savov on April 16, 2012 07:31 pm + 24 comments

  The names of Alan Turing and the Enigma encryption machine have grown inextricably linked over the Continue reading…

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  Bitcoin exchange Tradehill suspends trading, returns funds

  By Jeff Blagdon on February 14, 2012 10:46 am + 16 comments

  Bitcoin, the alternative currency based on a clever application of cryptography, has had its fair Continue reading…

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  Quantum cryptography's security called into question

  By Jamie Keene on January 25, 2012 10:27 am + 12 comments

  Quantum cryptography has been championed as the next step in security, with companies and Continue reading…

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  Google donates £550,000 to help restore site of Turing's codebreaking project

  By Adi Robertson on December 15, 2011 06:46 am + 10 comments

  Bletchley Park, site of the Allied codebreaking program during World War II and current home of the Continue reading…