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Taken at the National Cryptologic Museum, NSA.
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Quadratic Voting (QV) aims to bring the efficiency of markets to collective decision making by pricing rather than rationing votes. The proposal has attracted substantial interest and controversy in economics, law, philosophy and beyond. The goal of this conference is to evaluate the promise of Quadratic Voting and to stimulate research on QV from a broad range of perspectives. Leading scholars from disciplines ranging from classics to cryptography will present their work on diverse issues related to QV, including the history of the ideas behind it, practical implementation for market research surveys, objections to the use of money in politics and how QV might have averted political disasters in history. The conference papers will be published in a special issue of Public Choice in 2017, following up on a parallel special issue forty years prior on the use of the Vickrey-Clarke-Groves mechanism for collective decisions.
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.
I was in the RAF from Nov 1993 to Dec 2000. These pictures are from my trade training days at RAF Locking near Weston-Super-Mare, 9 Feb 1994 - 1 Aug 1994. I was on course TCO 114.
At RAF Locking I was trained as a Telecommunications Operator (TCO). A TCO mainly worked in Communication Centres or Signals Unit's, operating a variety of telegraphic, cryptographic, radio, and Morse equipment. TCO's were also trained as Telephonists where they worked in station telephone exchanges. TCO's could also serve in a field comms role at Tactical Communications Wing (TCW) RAF Brize Norton, a role in which I served in early 1998.
I later returned to RAF Locking in 1997 to undertake my Morse course (3 Mar 1997 - 10 Jun 1997); I was on QMC 41.
The operational units I served at were:
RAF Waddington
TCW, RAF Brize Norton (detached to Bahrain)
RAF Coningsby
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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.
This track is about building secure, yet usable, systems: security architecture, security engineering, cryptography.
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.
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Army buddy Dane Nagel poses on the observation deck of the Empire State Building during a weekend visit to New York City in the summer of 1971. He and I were Army classmates at Fort Monmouth, New Jersey, learning how to repair mobile cryptographic equipment.
This picture of Dane belies the jovial person that he was. He had the canny ability to mimic the gestures and expressions of self-important emcees, TV pitchmen, and the like and we shared many laughs over it. You might say he had a BS degree that had nothing to do with “bachelor of science.”
Being in Manhattan on a weekend was a lot more fun than being at Fort Monmouth on a weekend (duh!), which is why we were in the Big Apple. Getting from Fort Monmouth to Manhattan was easily accomplished by bus or train and I made several trips there during the 38 weeks I was at Fort Monmouth.
Both Dane and I enjoyed the same ironic fate after completing training: both of us were sent to Germany and neither of us ever touched the equipment we were trained to repair, partially because we were assigned to units that could not use our expertise. I considered that a blessing because I had trouble understanding electronic theory and thus hated it. Dane and I got in touch in April 2014, the first time since 1972.
The way this image got to the Web is interesting. In 1971 I bought Kodak black-and-white film in bulk rolls (probably bought in New York City) and wound it into reusable film cassettes at Fort Monmouth. The film was either Kodak Plus-X or Kodak Tri-X. I exposed it using a Honeywell Pentax H1a camera with a standard lens. In a photo lab at Fort Monmouth, I developed the film and made a print. The print stayed in boxes for decades. In April 2014 I photographed the print (using my iPhone 5) as it laid on my desk, edited the image with Lightroom, and in 2018 uploaded it to Flickr.
Notice the German keyboard layout. The rotors are at the upper left. Above the keyboard are the lights that indicated the encoded letter that a given key stood for.
Every tire contains symbols and cryptographic codes which hide the secrets of high performance. Case in point - this triangle indicates the correct contact height for the sidewall when turning in a fast, tight corner.
Bletchley Park in Buckinghamshire, was long the top secret centre for government intelligence. Its radio interception was decisive in the fight against Hitler in the Second World War.
This swinging panel houses the relay banks on the inside and the patch plug board visible on the outside. The red cables connected the Enigma wheels to each other and the relays.
The name Bombe arises from the relentless ticking sound that the machine made, leading operators to remark that it sounded like a time bomb waiting to go off.
Taken with a Pentax ME Super on Fujicolor Superia 200 ASA Colour negative stock.
Hard drives. Drive at top has 10 disks, the one at the bottom is a 2.5 inch laptop drive with 2 disks.
Photos by Sebastiaan ter Burg - Contact before use
Taken at the National Cryptologic Museum, NSA.
Creative Commons photo courtesy of ideonexus, please feel free to use for your own purposes.
The Enigma machine was a cipher machine used to encrypt and decrypt secret messages. More precisely, Enigma was a family of related electro-mechanical rotor machines, comprising a variety of different models.
The Enigma was used commercially from the early 1920s on, and was also adopted by the military and governmental services of a number of nations—most famously by Nazi Germany before and during World War II.
The German military model, the Wehrmacht Enigma, is the version most commonly discussed. The machine has gained notoriety because Allied cryptologists were able to decrypt a large number of messages that had been enciphered on the machine. Decryption was made possible in 1932 by Polish cryptographers Marian Rejewski, Jerzy Różycki and Henryk Zygalski from Cipher Bureau. In mid-1939 reconstruction and decryption methods were delivered from Poland to Britain and France. The intelligence gained through this source, codenamed ULTRA, was a significant aid to the Allied war effort. The exact influence of ULTRA is debated, but a typical assessment is that the end of the European war was hastened by two years because of the decryption of German ciphers.[1][2]
Although the Enigma cipher has cryptographic weaknesses, in practice it was only in combination with other significant factors (mistakes by operators, procedural flaws, an occasional captured machine or codebook) that Allied codebreakers were able to decipher messages.
A part of the machine built at Bletchley Park in World War II.
Taken at the National Cryptologic Museum, NSA.
Creative Commons photo courtesy of ideonexus, please feel free to use for your own purposes.
Taken at the National Cryptologic Museum, NSA.
Creative Commons photo courtesy of ideonexus, please feel free to use for your own purposes.
I was in the RAF from Nov 1993 to Dec 2000. These pictures are from my trade training days at RAF Locking near Weston-Super-Mare, 9 Feb 1994 - 1 Aug 1994. I was on course TCO 114.
At RAF Locking I was trained as a Telecommunications Operator (TCO). A TCO mainly worked in Communication Centres or Signals Unit's, operating a variety of telegraphic, cryptographic, radio, and Morse equipment. TCO's were also trained as Telephonists where they worked in station telephone exchanges. TCO's could also serve in a field comms role at Tactical Communications Wing (TCW) RAF Brize Norton, a role in which I served in early 1998.
I later returned to RAF Locking in 1997 to undertake my Morse course (3 Mar 1997 - 10 Jun 1997); I was on QMC 41.
The operational units I served at were:
RAF Waddington
TCW, RAF Brize Norton (detached to Bahrain)
RAF Coningsby
Taken at the National Cryptologic Museum, NSA.
Creative Commons photo courtesy of ideonexus, please feel free to use for your own purposes.
Taken at the National Cryptologic Museum, NSA.
Creative Commons photo courtesy of ideonexus, please feel free to use for your own purposes.
Taken at the National Cryptologic Museum, NSA.
Creative Commons photo courtesy of ideonexus, please feel free to use for your own purposes.
charismathics exhibits at IBM Pulse 2011, Las Vegas - 27Feb - 2Mar 2011
charismathics is a global leader in identity management software. Its premier product, the charismathics Smart Security Interface (CSSI), makes it cost-effective and easy for enterprises to integrate multiple authentication solutions into a single, transparent interface. Since 2003, charismathics has pioneered the field of Public Key Infrastructure (PKI), introducing the first PKI client to support Trusted Platform Modules (TPM) and the first PKI client to be fully integrated with pre-boot environments. charismathics also bundles its premier solution with silicon based hardware devices, primarily smart cards and USB cryptographic tokens, where physical and logical security needs also meet when contactless chips and RFID tags are embedded. charismathics is partnering with a growing number of world key players in the field of single sign on, hard disk encryption, digital certificate issuance. Envisioning a revolution in mobile Internet devices, charismathics has turned to this technology as well releasing iEnigma, a software which secures handheld units such as the iPhone, the iPod Touch and most phones featuring Windows Mobile, and provides streamlined two-factor authentication for the enterprise. charismathics offers its security products and services in a variety of industries including building security, banking and finance, healthcare, telecommunications, government and computer manufacturing.
Taken at the National Cryptologic Museum, NSA.
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