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Normal daily life along a different timeline - which we cannot find - but have the feeling that it exists - but
Certainly!
Quantum computing represents a groundbreaking advancement in technology, deeply intertwined with the concepts of superposition, entanglement, and interference from quantum physics. Unlike classical computing, which processes information in a linear fashion using bits (0s and 1s), quantum computing utilizes quantum bits or qubits that can exist in multiple states simultaneously. This enables quantum computers to perform numerous calculations at once, effectively navigating through a vast landscape of potential solutions.
The idea of parallel timelines can be likened to the way quantum computers operate. Each decision or computation can be viewed as branching into multiple outcomes, similar to how different timelines might unfold based on various choices. This means that a quantum computer can explore various paths to a solution simultaneously, leading to remarkable efficiencies in solving complex problems.
In practical terms, this capability could revolutionize fields such as cryptography, where quantum computers may break existing encryption methods faster than classical computers. In material science, they could simulate quantum phenomena to discover new materials with desirable properties. Additionally, in optimization problems across various industries, quantum computing offers the potential to find the most efficient solutions more rapidly than traditional methods.
In summary, the link between quantum computing and the concept of parallel timelines highlights a fascinating intersection of technology and theoretical physics, suggesting that our understanding of reality may be more complex and interconnected than we previously imagined.
Welcome to the real world, folks!
Several years ago - as in about 15-20, or so - I started using PGP (Pretty Good Privacy), which was shortly after Phil Zimmermann created PGP in 1991. For those unaware, PGP is industrial/military strength public key cryptography.
What exactly is "public key cryptography"?
Analogously, it's somewhat similar to a safe deposit box.
You store valuable & private stuff in it, and when you go to it, it takes TWO keys to get in.
One key - the Public Key - is held by the folks where the box is located, and the second key - your Private Key - is held by you.
Whoever holds the Private Key can get in. But, it ALWAYS takes TWO keys.
The reason Public Key Encryption is important is not only because of sensitive data or information, but because of snooping or prying eyes... and not just from governments, hackers, or thieves - but from for-profit firms, such as FaceBook, Google, Apple, Microsoft and others.
Increasingly, Social Media (SoMe) outlets and other websites (such as Google) are tracking us, and with surprising frequency, we are voluntarily sharing our private information with others. This is not to be paranoid, but rather to be vigilantly circumspect.
For example, in 1998 Congress passed the COPPA - Children's Online Privacy and Protection Act - which requires websites that collect information from children under the age of thirteen to comply with the Federal Trade Commission's (FTC) COPPA.
FaceBook CEO/Co-Founder Mark Zuckerberg is a well known and staunch opponent of COPPA, and has, since Day 1, hired attorneys to seek ways to circumvent COPPA requirements.
And that is a publicly traded, American firm!
How does that relate to Public Key Encryption? Insofar as it relates to individual security and privacy - and that's what PKE is all about - it provides an opportunity for, and offers security and freedom from "unreasonable searches and seizures," either by individuals, companies, or governments.
But really... what do you think about the idea of just anyone and everyone reading your private mail, listening in on phone conversations, knowing your every move, and more?
If you don't like that idea, perhaps it's time to consider more fully the benefits of Public Key Encryption.
The CEC1702 is a full-featured ARM® Cortex®-M4-based microcontroller with a complete hardware cryptography-enabled solution in a single package.
For centuries cryptography was used to ensure information secrecy and safe communication. Historically, queer people have had to use various codes and signals to indicate their sexual orientation to each other without being put in danger. "Tele_Code" aims to shine a light on these hidden parts of history. Inspired by Anne Lister, who used a substitution cypher to write about her relationships with women within her almost 5 million word diaries, the single-player video game takes the player into a maze full of encoded teletext pages, where they must find hints that reveal parts of the cypher and unlock the secret last page.
Photo: Sara Koniarek
(October 7, 2010): Claude Elwood Shannon (April 30, 1916 – February 24, 2001) was an American mathematician and electronic engineer known as "the father of information theory" and cryptography.
Gerfied Stocker (AT) is the artistic director of Ars Electronica.
charismathics exhibits at IBM Pulse 2011, Las Vegas - 27Feb - 2Mar 2011
Get rid of your standard authentication media, your smart card, your USB token, your reader and be free to move around with your inseparable companions only, your smart phone and your laptop. With them alone you can fully benefit of strong authentication mechanisms thanks to iEnigma® by charismathics®. The latest cutting edge technology delivered with a completely new user experience. Stop waiting for the IT administrator to set some weird architecture for you, do it independently yourself with some few clicks from your smart phone.
Organizations have enforced smart card authentication in recent years; however this technology is perceived as cryptic and cumbersome by many. iEnigma by charismathics simplifies strong authentication by using smart phones instead. The software is compatible with most PKI applications on computers and smart phones, maintaining the exact security standards. With iEnigma the user can log into his system, sign emails and documents, encrypt communications just as before, saving on buying other hardware and opening new ranges of use cases.
iEnigma is a mobile PKI security solution, absolutely unique and thus patented. Comparable products are either OTP or password based. Companies did not invest in architectures securing the communication between smart phone and laptop or mirroring the strong authentication and digital signature functionalities like a smart card does. With iEnigma, charismathics has translated standard APIs into Bluetooth language, reproducing the exact PKI authentication environment. Providing full TMS compatibility, enabling secure PIN entry and secure channel messaging by default, the software is immediately available for Windows Mobile. iEnigma will soon run on Android, RIM and Apple, also supporting NFC enabled units.
iEnigma simplifies strong authentication opening it to wider range of user groups. Already using smart cards, iEnigma enhances IT security by design, maintaining compatibility to investments made before. Introducing strong authentication, it extensively saves on hardware and is more flexible to use. Organizations save on constantly lost or damaged hardware.
iEnigma bridges user credentials from phones into computers, encrypting the communication channel, allowing PIN entry on the smart phone itself, thus enhancing the security compared to standard smart cards. By supporting applications on the phone, it works remotely as well. The full PKI compatibility allows for unchanged internal processes.
iEnigma re-invents the smart card and is the first strong authentication product that incorporates the expected permutation of corporate IT systems. Supporting common smart phone platforms, it supports applications both on the computer and the smart phone, putting all credentials together in a secure data container on the phone, whether it is the key chain, flash memory, SIM card or additional secure microSD cards such as the Secure Element for NFC operations. All current products are proprietary or represent a niche - no one offers an iEnigma-like 2-in-1 solution and with side benefits such as: full PKI compatibility; significant reductions in hardware cost by replacing tokens and readers using the phone instead; allowing encrypted communication; secure PIN entry; flexible credentials manageable by the user. iEnigma makes full use of the advantages of smart phones and is still fully compatible with all standard processes, APIs, cryptography algorithms and identity management systems. There is no other product opening the range of contactless authentication applications for PKI, such as in hospitals or transportation or payment schemes. The simple user interface opens up strong authentication to small organizations and the single user, reducing identity thefts and phishing attacks within day-to-day use.
Plessey Electronics, Exchange Works closed 1989 - part of the workforce was transferred to a small factory on Wavertree Technology Park (Plessey Crypto).
this building was converted to residential units but happy to note the exterior looks almost like it always did
NOTE: below is an extract from Wikipedia:
UK Air Defence
Plessey, became the Prime Contractor for a new UK Air Defence System, known by the Company under the name Plan Ahead and, from 1961, as Project Linesman. To enable the system to be designed and built without too much information becoming public knowledge, a new factory called "Exchange Works" was built in Cheapside in Liverpool city centre, where young employees were granted exemption from conscription.
Heart of the system, installed in a huge building in the middle of a council housing estate in West Drayton, was the computer room, occupying an area of around 300 by 150 feet (91 × 46 m) and filled with around 1,000 7-foot-high (2.1 m) racks of electronics, including mainly the XL4 computer, based entirely on germanium transistors and using a computer language developed at Exchange Works in the 1950s and 1960s. During this period the company effectively became the world leader in computer design... unfortunately, this fact remained a close secret.
The secure status of the factory attracted many other secret contracts and led to it becoming one of the major designers and manufacturers of cryptographic equipment. Exchange Works is now luxury flats.
Prototype by A.G. Damm 1920s
Taken at the National Cryptologic Museum, NSA.
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Taken at the National Cryptologic Museum, NSA.
Creative Commons photo courtesy of ideonexus, please feel free to use for your own purposes.
Microchip Technology Inc. announced a new hardware crypto enabled 32-bit microcontroller. The CEC1302’s hardware based cryptography suite offers significant performance improvements over firmware based solutions. The CEC1302 makes it easy to add security to IoT (Internet of Things) devices, offering easy-to-use encryption and authentication for programming flexibility and increased levels of security.
Kathryn Mills (Manager, Mathematics and Data Exploration at Canada Border Services), "From Cryptography to Big Data: A Career Path in Government Now".
charismathics exhibits at IBM Pulse 2011, Las Vegas - 27Feb - 2Mar 2011
Get rid of your standard authentication media, your smart card, your USB token, your reader and be free to move around with your inseparable companions only, your smart phone and your laptop. With them alone you can fully benefit of strong authentication mechanisms thanks to iEnigma® by charismathics®. The latest cutting edge technology delivered with a completely new user experience. Stop waiting for the IT administrator to set some weird architecture for you, do it independently yourself with some few clicks from your smart phone.
Organizations have enforced smart card authentication in recent years; however this technology is perceived as cryptic and cumbersome by many. iEnigma by charismathics simplifies strong authentication by using smart phones instead. The software is compatible with most PKI applications on computers and smart phones, maintaining the exact security standards. With iEnigma the user can log into his system, sign emails and documents, encrypt communications just as before, saving on buying other hardware and opening new ranges of use cases.
iEnigma is a mobile PKI security solution, absolutely unique and thus patented. Comparable products are either OTP or password based. Companies did not invest in architectures securing the communication between smart phone and laptop or mirroring the strong authentication and digital signature functionalities like a smart card does. With iEnigma, charismathics has translated standard APIs into Bluetooth language, reproducing the exact PKI authentication environment. Providing full TMS compatibility, enabling secure PIN entry and secure channel messaging by default, the software is immediately available for Windows Mobile. iEnigma will soon run on Android, RIM and Apple, also supporting NFC enabled units.
iEnigma simplifies strong authentication opening it to wider range of user groups. Already using smart cards, iEnigma enhances IT security by design, maintaining compatibility to investments made before. Introducing strong authentication, it extensively saves on hardware and is more flexible to use. Organizations save on constantly lost or damaged hardware.
iEnigma bridges user credentials from phones into computers, encrypting the communication channel, allowing PIN entry on the smart phone itself, thus enhancing the security compared to standard smart cards. By supporting applications on the phone, it works remotely as well. The full PKI compatibility allows for unchanged internal processes.
iEnigma re-invents the smart card and is the first strong authentication product that incorporates the expected permutation of corporate IT systems. Supporting common smart phone platforms, it supports applications both on the computer and the smart phone, putting all credentials together in a secure data container on the phone, whether it is the key chain, flash memory, SIM card or additional secure microSD cards such as the Secure Element for NFC operations. All current products are proprietary or represent a niche - no one offers an iEnigma-like 2-in-1 solution and with side benefits such as: full PKI compatibility; significant reductions in hardware cost by replacing tokens and readers using the phone instead; allowing encrypted communication; secure PIN entry; flexible credentials manageable by the user. iEnigma makes full use of the advantages of smart phones and is still fully compatible with all standard processes, APIs, cryptography algorithms and identity management systems. There is no other product opening the range of contactless authentication applications for PKI, such as in hospitals or transportation or payment schemes. The simple user interface opens up strong authentication to small organizations and the single user, reducing identity thefts and phishing attacks within day-to-day use.
Taken at the National Cryptologic Museum, NSA.
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This is the V.F.D. eye logo from Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events, tattooed on my left ankle.
V.F.D. members have been known to participate in various (and often unusual) academic pursuits, cryptography, disguise training, crime prevention, espionage, animal conditioning projects, and social activism. The organization's most known tenets include both extreme secrecy and dedication to the organization itself, with membership beginning from early childhood. Its motto is "The world is quiet here."
Since the schism, V.F.D. has realized that it is unwise to permanently mark oneself with a symbol when the meaning of the symbol may change at any moment, so people who now join V.F.D. do not receive a tattoo anymore.
I'd had the outline done for nearly a year, then when I came back to Ukraine I added the eyeball. It looks awesome, and much props to Artyom in Zhytomyr, Ukraine, for doing such a fabulous freehand job.
Reporting information about work on the separation of isotopes passed on by Dr. Klaus Fuchs, a British scientist assigned to the Manhatten (Atomic Bomb) Project.
Taken at the National Cryptologic Museum, NSA.
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The image shows the functioning of a quantum computer, where superimposed entangled photons are flattened to give the result of the computation. Testing Bell's Inequality proves that the device is operating in a quantum fashion, as a regular computer cannot replicate this computation.
At the Victory Show, Leicester, I got to see and touch a genuine German, wartime Enigma machine. This one belongs to Mark Baldwin, who tours and lectures on Enigma and Bletchley Park codebreaking. I still don't fully understand the details of Enigma, but here's my summary. The current code (for the day, week, or whatever) is set according to the codebook. The codebook defines plugboard setting, choice of rotors, order of rotors and their initial positions. The encoding is made by several sequential stages. First, a small number of letters are substituted using the plugboard at the very front of the machine. Further substitutions then take place in each of the rotors (4 on this model). Each rotor has concealed internal wiring which converts a letter input into a different letter output. The input is fed through each rotor in turn, then back again. Finally, the resulting letter is illuminated in the rows of lights above the keyboard. Just to make it a little tougher, the rotors are automatically advanced as the message is encoded. Encoding is done letter by letter, with an operator typing the message and another person writing the encoded letters as they are illuminated.
Communicate Covertly and Hide Secret Messages in Plain Sight with Steganography
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Taken at the National Cryptologic Museum, NSA.
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Taken at the National Cryptologic Museum, NSA.
Creative Commons photo courtesy of ideonexus, please feel free to use for your own purposes.
SAN DIEGO (Sept. 13, 2013) Chief Cryptographic Technician Technical Ebony Seymoure embraces a fellow chief after her pinning ceremony for Sailors assigned to amphibious transport dock ship USS Green Bay (LPD 20). Green Bay is currently in BAE Systems San Diego Ship Repair undergoing a scheduled maintenance availability. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class Elizabeth Merriam/Released)
A rather creepy looking doll that was on display in Bletchley Park Manor. I didn't hang around long enough to find out it's history, too creeped out.
Taken at the National Cryptologic Museum, NSA.
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Normal daily life along a different timeline - which we cannot find - but have the feeling that it exists - but
Certainly!
Quantum computing represents a groundbreaking advancement in technology, deeply intertwined with the concepts of superposition, entanglement, and interference from quantum physics. Unlike classical computing, which processes information in a linear fashion using bits (0s and 1s), quantum computing utilizes quantum bits or qubits that can exist in multiple states simultaneously. This enables quantum computers to perform numerous calculations at once, effectively navigating through a vast landscape of potential solutions.
The idea of parallel timelines can be likened to the way quantum computers operate. Each decision or computation can be viewed as branching into multiple outcomes, similar to how different timelines might unfold based on various choices. This means that a quantum computer can explore various paths to a solution simultaneously, leading to remarkable efficiencies in solving complex problems.
In practical terms, this capability could revolutionize fields such as cryptography, where quantum computers may break existing encryption methods faster than classical computers. In material science, they could simulate quantum phenomena to discover new materials with desirable properties. Additionally, in optimization problems across various industries, quantum computing offers the potential to find the most efficient solutions more rapidly than traditional methods.
In summary, the link between quantum computing and the concept of parallel timelines highlights a fascinating intersection of technology and theoretical physics, suggesting that our understanding of reality may be more complex and interconnected than we previously imagined.
Taken at the National Cryptologic Museum, NSA.
Creative Commons photo courtesy of ideonexus, please feel free to use for your own purposes.
Motorola SECTEL 3500 STU-III phone - closeup of keypad. User programmable features are available via menus displayed on LCD screen.
Taken at the National Cryptologic Museum, NSA.
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Alan Turing Archive, Sherborne School Collections, Sherborne School, Abbey Road, Sherborne, Dorset, UK, DT9 3AP oldshirburnian.org.uk/school-archives/
The Alan Turing Prize for Science was founded at Sherborne School by the Turing family in memory of Alan Mathison Turing (1912-1954). The prize was first awarded in 1956.
Alan Mathison Turing (1912-1954) was a pupil at Sherborne School from May 1926 to July 1931. In 1965, Alan's mother, Mrs Ethel Sara Turing, donated the Alan Turing Archive to Sherborne School.
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The image shows two entangled photons, which form the basis of quantum computing.
Physicists of the group of Prof. Anton Zeilinger at the Institute for Quantum Optics and Quantum Information (IQOQI), the University of Vienna, and the Vienna Center for Quantum Science and Technology (VCQ) have, for the first time, demonstrated in an experiment that the decision whether two particles were in an entangled or in a separable quantum state can be made even after these particles have been measured and may no longer exist. Their results will be published this week in the journal Nature Physics.