4 November 2004
Today's reading list
- Avet Terterian, Composer from Armenia
- The Doghouse: Vadium Technology
- One-Time Pads
- Nature (journal)
- Science (journal)
- Avet Terterian, Composer from Armenia
- The Doghouse: Vadium Technology
- One-Time Pads
- Nature (journal)
- Science (journal)
[ via The Rambler -> Avet Terterian, Composer from Armenia ]
I'd never heard of this composer. The Rambler compared him to Krzysztof Penderecki and other sonorist [?] composers. On the Terterian site, you can download mp3s of all of his symphonies but #5.
[ via Schneier on Security -> Crypto-Gram Newsletter, October 15, 2002 ]
[ via Wikipedia ]
I subscribe to Bruce Schneier's rss feed and this entry mocks Vadium Technology for offering one-time pad security. One-time pads require that both the sender and receiver possess the same collection of character replacement keys, that no one else has those keys, and that the keys are as long as any message they will encrypt. The participants can send messages using one key for each message, in pre-arranged order, and must destroy the key once it's used.
Security is shifted from complex encryption to complex distribution. Most encryption systems use a complex process to turn messages into noise and back into messages. One-time pads use simple encryption that is secure only if the pads can be distributed securely and each key is never used again. This is usually impractical.
[ via Wikipedia ]
[ via Wikipedia ]
Nature and Science are the two big-wig science journals out there. Nature was first published in 1869; Science was first published in 1880 (by Thomas Edison).
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