Cryptography

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Crypto AG: The Swiss Firm Owned by the CIA

20 Dec 2023 4 minute read 3 comments MintDice.com

It’s almost too crazy to believe. The United States CIA actually owned a firm in Switzerland, which allowed them to spy on the world. But it’s true. It happened, and the entire scheme lasted over 50 years, only coming to light in 2018. If we’ve pique...

Beyond Encryption: Future tactics and strategies in securing the digital domain

18 Dec 2023 1 minute read 0 comments Zhukov

As the level of security of cyberspace gets more complex, so it also does to cryptography and information’s integrity to protect online castles and privacy of data from being invaded by outsiders. Complex but colorful mural unwraps in detail the edge...

Mastering the Digital Fortress: Cybersecurity and Cryptology

17 Dec 2023 1 minute read 1 comment Zhukov

It is also more vital that protection for the digital world be a part of age of threat with digital “adversaries” rather than simply encryption. Instead of merely encoding our digital space for security purposes, we have to resort to more sophisticat...

Using Steganography (with steghide) to Embed a Copyright Notice in Multimedia Files

9 Jul 2023 2 minute read 0 comments Great White Snark

As my regular readers will know, I've been having some trouble with minting and sharing NFT versions of my digital artwork (in both audio and visual form). I decided that I would go the traditional/Web2 route of publishing it (through BMC and Patreon...

The Basics Of A Bitcoin Public Key and Private Key

27 May 2023 4 minute read 2 comments 0xVince

Most users are already familiar with a digital wallet. The wallet is what holds your keys to your cryptocurrency assets, like Bitcoin. Then you realize that these are important components of owning your Bitcoin. They grant you control of your own mon...

THE END OF PASSWORDS: PASSKEYS ON THE RISE

8 May 2023 2 minute read 0 comments Citizen0

In the rapidly evolving digital landscape, the traditional password has long been the first line of defense for our online accounts. However, with Google's recent announcement of integrating passkeys into their accounts, the era of passwords may be c...

A few words about cryptography and its impact on the creation of Bitcoin

5 Apr 2023 4 minute read 1 comment Aaronaa

Cryptography, the science of secret messages, has been around for thousands of years. Already the ancient Greeks used encryption techniques, and Julius Caesar used his own cipher to protect his confidential documents from prying eyes. Emperor Julius...

Python | Caesar Cipher

6 Mar 2023 12 minute read 0 comments Casper_x

Caesar Cipher   Today we will see together how to create the Caesar cipher. Let's start from the beginning.. It is essential to understand how the Caesar cipher works : each letter of the text is shifted by 'n' positions in the alphabet, where 'n' is...

There's Nothing Wonderful About Spam or Surveillance Capitalism (Say Goodbye to Everyone I Have Ever Known)

28 Feb 2023 3 minute read 0 comments Great White Snark

About two hours prior to writing this, I've recently checked my email, to find a message from Google in my personal inbox, asking me to confirm that I want mail from a business email address someone set up forwarded to it, without them bothering to a...

Like Bitcoin? Learn the basics of Cryptography!

30 Jan 2023 4 minute read 1 comment Kovichni

Like with everything in life, if you found something you are truly interested in you should at the very least try to understand it better by looking where and how it originated. I'm by no means a code writer or a cryptography expert, I barely passed...