In a recent TechCrunch article I was quoted calling the one-time pad a “unicorn”. Inevitably, I was roundly criticized. But what none of the commenters (or myself) realized, however, was how ...

One-time pads are the holy grail of cryptography—they are impossible to crack, even in principle. They work by adding a set of random digits to a message thereby creating a ciphertext that looks ...

There’s a section of our community who concern themselves with the technological aspects of preparing for an uncertain future, and for them a significant proportion of effort goes in to communication.

So in math class today, I happened to get into a discussion with my teacher about cyphers and encryption. He's an ex-Air Force datacomm and encryption guy (relly nifty person) and I confirmed from him ...