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Michele Reilly is a scientist, an artist, and a systems thinker whose work resists easy classification. She trained in architecture and art at Cooper Union, where she began building intelligent machines and quickly became fascinated by the logic behind them. That curiosity drew her into mathematics, cryptography, macroeconomics, and eventually quantum physics. Her path has been shaped less by credentials than by the depth of her questions.
At MIT, where she teaches in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Michele works at the intersection of computation and the structure of spacetime. She explores how information flows through the universe, drawing from Claude Shannon’s foundational theories and extending them into the quantum realm. Her research is ambitious, but it is rooted in careful thinking. She is not interested in speculation for its own sake. She wants to know what can be built, what can be measured, and what will last.
In 2016, she co-founded Turing, a quantum technology startup focused on building portable quantum memories and tools for long-distance quantum communication. She works closely with physicist Seth Lloyd on designing the scalable, robust systems needed to move quantum computing from theory into practice. The work is intricate and deliberate, building slowly toward a future that she sees as both beautiful and unfamiliar.
Michele is also a storyteller. Her science fiction series Steeplechase has received awards at Cannes and other international festivals. It reflects her belief that narrative and science are not separate pursuits, but parallel ways of exploring the unknown. In her teaching, she brings these strands together, guiding students through exercises that combine quantum theory, creative writing, and world-building. One of her courses, supported by MIT’s Center for Art, Science and Technology, invites students to imagine speculative futures grounded in scientific inquiry.
On her arm is a tattoo of Alan Turing. It is not ornamental. It is a quiet tribute to a thinker whose life and work continue to shape her own. Turing’s dedication to truth, structure, and the ethical weight of technology is a constant presence in her thinking. She carries it with her, quite literally.
The portrait above was made at The Interval at the Long Now Foundation in San Francisco. Michele is seated beside a polished table that reflects her image. Behind her stands the Orrery, a planetary model designed to keep time for ten thousand years. The setting reflects the spirit of her work. She is grounded in the present but always thinking forward, asking how we might live in ways that honor complexity, care, and continuity. She does not speak often about legacy. She speaks about attention, about precision, and about the discipline of staying with difficult questions until they begin to yield something real.
Telecomix Crypto Munitions Bureau works for the benefit of cipherspace. Cipherspace is the state of crypto anarchy. This means that your identity is anonymous as long as you stay protected. There are no identities or authorities in cipherspace, and it is not possible to enforce laws where there is no identity, or where there are no authorities.
Today there are several threats to the inhabitants of the internet. The politicians of oppressive regimes in the east and in the west, in north and south, are imposing surveillance. Surveillance of the entire networks. What people say to each other, what information is transmitted between bots and humans alike.
This aggression must be met with the strongest encryption algorithms available to modern computers. With onion and garlic routing it is possible to erect the fractal cipherspace. With distributed hash tables it is possible to create networks that has no central node. There is no one that controls the fractal cipherspace. Internet as we know it, turns into darknet.
Telecomix Crypto Munitions Bureau recommends that you use the following software: i2p, for anonymous and secure communications, Gnu Privacy Guard, for direct and verified communication. The onion router, TOR, to access the internets.
Telecomix Munitions is a defense bureau.
You can change the future of the internets by joining us in defending the networks and creating cipherspace.
You can help defending yourself and your friends, yes, all inhabitants of the networks.
By learning a few skills you can take control over technology.
Telecomix munitions are currently developing and promoting advanced security devices, which can endure even the harshest forms of government or corporation surveillance.
Your personal computer is an encryption device. Modern hardware can transform plain text to ciphertext with ease. So rapidly you barely notice the difference between unencrypted and encrypted data.
The laws of mathematics are infinitely stronger than the laws of nations and corporations, as the human laws are really only ink on paper. The laws of mathematics, on the other hand, are the laws that define our very universe. With the use of modern crypto algorithms we can use this fact to defend free speech and the integrity of both bots and humans. Information is nothing but numbers, numbers governed not by human laws, but by the laws of mathematics.
Networks that utilize the power of cryptography already exist. It will not be possible to stop the spread of the fractal cipherspace.
To find out more, come to telecomix.org or visit us in cipherspace on telecomix.i2p.
Feel free to visit my works on Deviant Art: xp0s3.deviantart.com/
Have you ever noticed the barcodes on your receipts?
I notice such useless details and I even try to decode them:
Debate map created by my students last fall, analyzing the arguments for security and for privacy in Cory Doctorow's novel, Little Brother. Pro-security arguments in blue, pro-privacy arguments yellow, with arrows showing connections between arguments.
The Codebreakers by David Kahn
Because The Codebreakers dealt with several potentially sensitive subjects, like the National Security Agency, the US Intelligence and defense communities asked to review the manuscript prior to publication. After its review, the Department of Defense stated they "deplored the book" and "it would not be in the national interest to publish it." Kahn deleted certain portions related to NSA and the book was published without further incidence.
Source of material : National Cryptologic Museum
The Codebreakers (from Wikipedia article on David Kahn)
The Codebreakers comprehensively chronicles the history of cryptography from ancient Egypt to the time of its writing. It is widely regarded as the best account of the history of cryptography up to its publication. William Crowell, the former deputy director of the National Security Agency, was quoted in Newsday as saying "Before he (Kahn) came along, the best you could do was buy an explanatory book that usually was too technical and terribly dull." Kahn, then a journalist, was contracted to write a book on cryptology in 1961. He began writing it part-time, at one point quitting his regular job to work on it full time. The book was to include information on the National Security Agency (NSA), and according to the author James Bamford writing in 1982, the agency attempted to stop its publication, and considered various options, including publishing a negative review of Kahn's work in the press to discredit him. A committee of the United States Intelligence Board concluded that the book was "a possibly valuable support to foreign COMSEC authorities" and recommended "further low-key actions as possible, but short of legal action, to discourage Mr. Kahn or his prospective publishers". Kahn's publisher, the Macmillan company, handed over the manuscript to the Federal government for review without Kahn's permission on 4 March 1966. Kahn and Macmillan eventually agreed to remove some material from the manuscript, particularly concerning the relationship between the NSA and its British counterpart, the GCHQ.
The Codebreakers did not cover most of the history concerning the breaking of the German Enigma machine (which became public knowledge only in the 1970s). Nor did it cover the advent of strong cryptography in the public domain, beginning with the invention of public key cryptography and the specification of the Data Encryption Standard in the mid-1970s. This book was republished in 1996, and this new edition includes an additional chapter briefly covering the events since the original publication.
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"We stand today at the brink of a revolution in cryptography" -- the first sentence from the most famous cryptographic research paper ever written. In 1976 Whit Diffie and Martin Hellman discovered Public Key Cryptography which enabled the transformation of the ancient art of cryptography into a science. The consequences of their research have had huge implications to the everyday lives of billions of people around the globe. For instance, they provided the main concepts for the realisation of security in e-commerce, online banking, cable/satellite television, online stock trading, cloud computing, mobile phone communication, and many, many, many more applications.
In retrospect, Diffie and Hellman were standing on more than just the brink of a revolution in cryptography. It was the brink of a revolution in information technology, and public key cryptography was providing the bridge that allowed us to make it a reality. Welcome to the information age.
The Postcard
A Real Photo Series postcard that was published by Nigh of Ventnor.
The card was posted in Sandown, Isle of Wight on Monday the 3rd. July 1951 to:
Mrs. Lloyd,
108, Lambton Road,
West Wimbledon,
London S.W.20.
The message on the divided back of the card was as follows:
"Dear Mrs. Lloyd,
I trust you are well.
We are all at Sandown
having a lovely time
with most glorious
weather.
The children are really
enjoying the sand and
water. Stanley thinks
life is wonderful - he's
not a bit afraid of the
water.
We have been on the
canoe lake with the
children.
Love from us all,
Joyce and John".
Sandown
Sandown is a seaside resort town on the south-east coast of the Isle of Wight, with the resort of Shanklin to the south and the settlement of Lake in between.
Sandown has a population of 11,654 according to the 2021 Census, and together with Shanklin and Lake forms a built-up area of around 25,000 inhabitants.
The northernmost town of Sandown Bay, Sandown has an easily accessible, sandy shoreline with beaches that run continuously from the cliffs at Battery Gardens in the south to Yaverland in the north.
Culver Cliff
There have been a number of suicides from Culver Down, generally involving a vehicle being driven over the cliff. Measures to make the cliff edge less accessible to vehicles have been put in place, but such incidents continue to occur.
On the 17th. August 2011, Paul and Jacqueline Charles, in an apparent suicide pact, drove over the cliff from the car park adjoining the Culver Haven pub in a blue Renault Espace. They died on impact with the shoreline after a drop in excess of 300 ft.
On the 11th. October 2012, Robert Hayball of Newport also drove his van over the cliff, resulting in his death.
Diana Dors
So what else happened on the day that Joyce and John posted the card?
Well, on the 3rd. July 1951, Diana Dors married Dennis Hamilton Gittins at Caxton Hall. She had met Dennis in May 1951 while filming 'Lady Godiva Rides Again', a film which has uncredited appearances by Joan Collins, and a four-months pregnant Ruth Ellis who was subsequently hung for murder.
Dors described herself as:
"The only sex symbol Britain has
produced since Lady Godiva".
Diana Dors (born Diana Mary Fluck on the 23rd. October 1931) was an English film actress and singer. Diana claimed that the producers of her first film required her to change her name:
'They asked me to change my name.
I suppose they were afraid that if my
real name Diana Fluck was in lights
and one of the lights blew ......."
Diana first came to public notice as a blonde bombshell in the style of American Marilyn Monroe, as promoted by her first husband, Dennis Hamilton, mostly via raunchy film comedies and risqué modelling.
After it turned out that Hamilton had been defrauding her, she continued to play up to her established image, and she made tabloid headlines with the parties held at her house.
Later, she showed a genuine talent for TV, recordings, and cabaret, and gained new popularity as a regular chat-show guest.
Death of Diana Dors
Dors died on the 4th. May 1984, aged 52, at the Princess Margaret Hospital in Windsor from a recurrence of ovarian cancer, first diagnosed two years before.
She had converted to Catholicism in early 1973; hence, her funeral service was held at the Sacred Heart Church in Sunningdale on the 11th. May 1984. She was buried in Sunningdale Catholic Cemetery.
Alan Lake
After her death, her third husband Alan Lake burned all of Dors' remaining clothes and fell into a depression.
On the 10th. October 1984, Lake did a telephone interview with Daily Express journalist Jean Rook, and then he walked into their son's bedroom and took his own life by firing a shotgun into his mouth. He was 43. This was five months after Diana's death from cancer, and 16 years to the day since they had first met.
The Secret Code
Dors claimed to have left a large fortune to her son in her will, via a secret code in the possession of her third husband, actor Alan Lake.
In 2003 cryptography firm Inforenz cracked the code, revealing a list of names and towns. It is thought that a second encrypted sheet exists which contains bank account numbers. So far this second sheet has never been found.
EOS cryptocurrency golden coin on futuristic technology background vector illustration banner and wallpaper template
OK, not the best photo of me, but an important day - not only because Bletchley Park cryptography station was vital to stopping Hitler in the second world war, but also because significant advances in computing were made there, and because people were brought together who later went on to develop the first real computers. Without WWII cryptography we might not have the kinds of machine that you're probably viewing this on.
The sad side of the story, of course, concerns Dr. Alan Turing, the brilliant mathematician who was central to the war effort and also important in the develoment of digital computers after the war. He also happened to be gay, and was eventually prosecuted for his sexual preferences and sentenced to chemical castration using female hormones. He committed suicide aged 41. A similar thing could well have happened to me if I'd lived during that period.
Taken at the National Cryptologic Museum, NSA.
Creative Commons photo courtesy of ideonexus, please feel free to use for your own purposes.
How to PGP encrypt, decrypt or digitally sign files via GnuPG GUI
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Telecomix Crypto Munitions Bureau works for the benefit of cipherspace. Cipherspace is the state of crypto anarchy. This means that your identity is anonymous as long as you stay protected. There are no identities or authorities in cipherspace, and it is not possible to enforce laws where there is no identity, or where there are no authorities.
Today there are several threats to the inhabitants of the internet. The politicians of oppressive regimes in the east and in the west, in north and south, are imposing surveillance. Surveillance of the entire networks. What people say to each other, what information is transmitted between bots and humans alike.
This aggression must be met with the strongest encryption algorithms available to modern computers. With onion and garlic routing it is possible to erect the fractal cipherspace. With distributed hash tables it is possible to create networks that has no central node. There is no one that controls the fractal cipherspace. Internet as we know it, turns into darknet.
Telecomix Crypto Munitions Bureau recommends that you use the following software: i2p, for anonymous and secure communications, Gnu Privacy Guard, for direct and verified communication. The onion router, TOR, to access the internets.
Telecomix Munitions is a defense bureau.
You can change the future of the internets by joining us in defending the networks and creating cipherspace.
You can help defending yourself and your friends, yes, all inhabitants of the networks.
By learning a few skills you can take control over technology.
Telecomix munitions are currently developing and promoting advanced security devices, which can endure even the harshest forms of government or corporation surveillance.
Your personal computer is an encryption device. Modern hardware can transform plain text to ciphertext with ease. So rapidly you barely notice the difference between unencrypted and encrypted data.
The laws of mathematics are infinitely stronger than the laws of nations and corporations, as the human laws are really only ink on paper. The laws of mathematics, on the other hand, are the laws that define our very universe. With the use of modern crypto algorithms we can use this fact to defend free speech and the integrity of both bots and humans. Information is nothing but numbers, numbers governed not by human laws, but by the laws of mathematics.
Networks that utilize the power of cryptography already exist. It will not be possible to stop the spread of the fractal cipherspace.
To find out more, come to telecomix.org or visit us in cipherspace on telecomix.i2p.
Feel free to visit my works on Deviant Art: xp0s3.deviantart.com/
Taken at the National Cryptologic Museum, NSA.
Creative Commons photo courtesy of ideonexus, please feel free to use for your own purposes.
Title: Della fisonomia dell'hvomo del signor Gio. Battista dalla Porta Napolitano : libri sei tradotti di Latino in volgare, e dall'istesso auttore accresciuti di figure, & di passi necessarij a diuerse parti dell'opera; et hora in questa terza, & vltima editione migliorati in piu di mille luoghi, che nella stampa di Napoli si leggeuano scorrettissimi, & aggiontaui La fisonomia naturale di Monsignor Giouanni Ingegneri.
Authors: Porta, Giambattista della approximately 1535-1615; Ingegneri, Giovanni d. 1600 Fisonomia naturale
Publisher: Venice : Pietro Paolo Tozzi
Publication Date: 1615
Physical Description: Illustrated, 23 cm. Book is most likely bound in vellum. Beige headbands.
Call Number: BF 840 .P6716 1615
About this book: this book provides an in-depth study into physiognomy. As quoted from the AbeBooks.com seller in Germany: “Della Porta preceded Lavater in attempting to estimate human character by the features. This is one of the first works on the ancient science of physiognomy to be extensively illustrated (G.-M).”
Giambattista della Porta (also known as Giovanni Battista Della Porta) was an Italian scholar, playwright and polymath. He studied many subjects, particularly the sciences, mathematics and the occult. He was sometimes referred to as the “professor of secrets.” He was born into an artistic and highly educated family from Vico Equense, near Naples. His books and plays covered diverse subjects including hydraulics, cryptography, comedies, physiognomy, astrology, philosophy and scientific inventions (Wikipedia).
According to Wikipedia, physiognomy is “the assessment of a person’s character or personality from his or her outer appearance, especially the face.” This study has fallen in and out of favor over time. There is no clear evidence that physiognomy is scientifically sound. In this book, Porta used animals to illustrate human characteristics and often compared the appearance of humans and animals side by side.
Sources cited:
Della Fisonomia Dell’Hvomo Del Signor Gio. Battista Dalla Porta Napolitano. Libri Sei. Tradotti di Latino in volgare, e dall’istesso Auttore accresciuti di figure,. Et hora in quest’vltima Editione migliorati in piu di mille luoghi, che nella stampa di Napoli si leggeuano scorettisimi aggiontaui la Fisonomia Naturale di Monsignor Giouanni Ingegneri. (n.d.) Retrieved June 16, 2015 from AbeBooks.com: www.abebooks.com/servlet/BookDetailsPL?bi=13121068751&....
Giambattista della Porta (n.d.) Retrieved on June 16, 2015 from Wikipedia: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giambattista_della_Porta
Physiognomy (n.d.) Retrieved on June 16, 2015 from Wikipedia: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physiognomy
Jaina Lefevre is sitting on the box, reading and humming to herself.
Aylin Daviau spotted the small girl and smiled, she tried to appear as friendly as she could which wasnt easy for her either "Komme, your aunt Lilli wishes to see you, it is not far" she said, speaking to her just like she would an adult..she knew no other way really.
Jaina Lefevre looks up and grins. "Really? Tauntie does? I was hopin. I misses her." She tucks the book reader in her pocket and jumps down, reaching up to take Aylin's hand.
Aylin Daviau takes the hand and winced...unsure how to break the news that the lovely lady helping her had killed Aunt Lilli...by decapitation no less...she nodded instead and began to lead her toward reception "Ja...she has just been a little busy"
Jaina Lefevre grins and skips along with Aylin. "I gots a new crypto-graffy (cryptography) book. S'really good. You likes puzzles?" she asks the woman as the door opens.
Aylin Daviau blinks and had no idea what the child was talking about..likely some kid speak for something shed never understand, she shook her head...leaning back against the door "Nein, I dont like them and Aunt Lilli is dead....I cut her head off" she said, having to supress a laugh but she did rather well.
Jaina Lefevre whirls around and stares at Aylin. "Tha's not funny. Where's Tauntie Lilli?"
Aylin Daviau raised a brow then shook her head...just slowly, she didnt smile..in fact there was little to no emotion on her face at all "Downstairs...." she said finally which was partially the truth, Lillis head was still in the fridge...her new body in the making however that wasnt here...far too risky shed left her in the relative safety of leviathan instead.
Jaina Lefevre crosses her arms and clenches her jaw. "You're a shithead." she states flatly. "And a liarface. I'm gonna tell Tauntie when I sees her that you is."
Shoya Namuya blinks when the little girl is brought in and she looks up at Aylin. She frowns as she watches her and then she asks "... What... What is going on?" And she frowns abit more
Aylin Daviau: "She is Dr Ackermans problem..sadly, Dr Ackerman isnt with us at this point...she has been enhanced, a routine checkup is required this is all...perhaps you could begin such for me, the conditioning has obviously contined to work....her strength however will need to be tested" she said, then glanced down at the child "I have been called far worse little one" she said, though she help no apathy for her...it was a job and no more, even if one that had caused her many problems, mainly with the childs real parents....the good Dr Ackerman couldnt have chosen an orphan to adopt of course.
Jaina Lefevre curls her fingers to Aylin, that gesture that kids use to get an adult to bend down closer. "I gots a secret.." she whispers...
Shoya Namuya frowns a bit and then she sighs. she looks down to the ground before looking back up to the woman and then she asks her "How would I do that...?". She looks towarsd the door that leads downstairs, thne back to Aylin and she waits for her response before saying "I know how to fix things.. But I wouldn't say that I'm good at keeping someone alive..."
Aylin Daviau half turned and locked the front door, so only employees who had the access code would be able to enter she then regarded the child again, something of a smirk curling the ends of her lips "I dont like secrets either and as for this task" she said, lifting her eyes to shoya "It is simple, there are small weights in the lab downstairs, varying weights...many of which a child her size should never be able to lift, document the maximum weight she can carry, length of time...stamina, I will be down shortly"
Lithia Nightfire eyes the child "There seems to be many.. needy children here..."
Jaina Lefevre balls up her right hand into a fist and as Aylin looks to Shoya, Jai aims that fist for the spot near the woman's groin where the plates were thinner in order for the joint to work. "Cut YOUR head off!"
Jaina Lefevre doesn't look like a needy child. In fact, she's rather well dressed and clean.
Shoya Namuya sighs heavily when Jaina punches at Aylin and then she steps forward. She would move hehr and out for the girl to take and she says "Come on... Punching her isn't goign to do anything...". She smiles at the child, trying to be as friendly as possible and she says "My name is Shoya... What's your name?" adn she smiles more
Aylin Daviau blinks and almost seems to freeze right where she stood, th pain wasnt intense no but for a child that size it was enough and she shouldnt ever be that strong..that was rather obvious, a hand moved to her thigh and she held it..eyes narrowing then "Take it away from me" she said, trying hard to keep her composure but she didnt like children....didnt want them near her at all and certainly not attacking her.
Jaina Lefevre crosses her arms and snarls at Shoya. "Not goin' anywhere but home. Outta my way, liarface shithead lady." She steps as if to get around Aylin and to the door.
Shoya Namuya frowns at the little girl and then she shakes her head. After a moment she stands up and she says simply "You've got a nasty mouth there" and she frowns. she shrugs, though, and she moves over to the drink machine to get herself some water
Lithia Nightfire looks at foull mouth child with amazement
Aylin Daviau: "You may try...though I doubt you will have much luck" she said, moving away from the door which was essentually steel core titanium and coded, if the child could get through that she would be impressed.
Jaina Lefevre would tug on the handle a few times and push and kick and then turn around and glare at Aylin. "Open. The. Door, or my Mommies will blowed you up." When all else fails, bring on the heavy artillery. Mommy.
Shoya Namuya chuckles as she listens to the little girl and then she pulls the drink up to take a sip of it. After that she sighs and says "Listen... I'm trying to be nice to you okay, kiddo...? I don't want to do it, but I really don't have a choice" ands he shakes her head, frowning before she adds "I'll be as nice as possible, if you do the same" adns he nods to her
Lithia Nightfire looks up ay Aylin "Ms Daviau, if you need assistance with the child, I believe my strength is greater than the childs." hoping to diffuse the child before any tantrums begin
Aylin Daviau: "Blowed? as in past tense...nein, it appears I am still intact as it were" she said, pausing to laugh she then sighed..this was why she didnt like kids, you couldnt reason with them "Now, the tests will go ahead either way, how easy this is, is your decision" she said, though she really didnt need to do them, she knew the strengtgh had increased and that could be enough evaluation until Lilli returned to deal with this...she glanced at Lithia then and shrugged, though she was greatful..anything to have it difused "Of course...just dont let it bite you" she said as if talking about a wild animal rather than a child.
Jaina Lefevre flattened her palms against the door, arms spread, feet spread slightly for stability. "I ain't movin until this door opens and I can go out. I WANT OUT! NOW! OUT! NOW! NOWNOWNOW! Each word accompanied by a slam of a hand or heel against the steel door.
Aylin Daviau: "Perhaps she will simply hit it with her head" she commented, smiling a little she was also getting a migraine and was very tempted to simply try to tranq the child instead..she leaned up against the desk and placed her hands upon it, her eyes shifting to Lithia "Im beginning to beleive reception became a crech'e, if it is not one child it is another" she said, half joking but it would be obvious she was irritated too.
Lithia Nightfire walks towards the child "Please, let not make a scene of this. I do not believe Ms Daviau means you any harm. And I do not care to get into an ordeal with this, child" hopeing she didnt just bite off more than she can chew
Jaina Lefevre lashes out a foot at Lithia, aiming for the shin - and legs are stronger than arms. If she could punch hard enough to be felt through the armor...
Shoya Namuya sighs heavily as the child throws a temper tantrum and then she shouts out "KID! I know that you don't want to be here... I hate this place, too! God! Just... STOP screaming!!" and she shakes herh ead ebfore adding "And for the love of pete PLEASE stop punching and kicking people!"
Lithia Nightfire not ready for any swings from the child, the foot plants firmy into her shin, and drop her to one knee. not showing any pain from the sudden swift kick, she places on arm on the floor, and looks back up at the child "Please, do not make this difficult for yourself."
(and storm took out power, end scene)
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Operational ENIGMA rotors
To further enhance ENIGMA's security, the German military issued extra rotors with each machine, two for Army and Air Force, four for the Navy. Each rotor was wired differently and identified with a Roman numeral. Setting up a communications net involved selecting the rotors for the day and placing them in the proper left to right order.
Source National Cryptologic Museum
Comment - presume this is a set of navy rotors as there are a total of seven, three plus four extra. The name of this set looks to be M6829
ENIGMA remains the best known German cryptographic machine of World War II.
ENIGMA cipher machine collection
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As with all cipher machines, it was necessary to know how to set up the ENIGMA so that the sender and receiver could read each others messages. To add to the ENIGMA's complexity, each of the theree German armed services used it's own set of keys, often using a different set of keys for each communications network. The key list shown here was used by the German Army to change ENIGMA settings daily for a one month period. Government and commercial keys would be similar.
Source National Cryptologic Museum
ENIGMA remains the best known German cryptographic machine of World War II.
Some added info (from Wikipedia ENIGMA article)
Walzenlage ( Wheel order )
Each rotor was wired differently and identified with a Roman numeral. Setting up a communications net involved selecting the rotors for the day and placing them in the proper left to right order.
Ringstellung ("ring setting").
alphabet ring of rotor relative to the core wiring. The position of the ring is known as the Ringstellung ("ring setting").
Steckerverbindungen
plugboard (Steckerbrett) settings (10 of 13 appear to be used)
Kenngruppen key identification
ENIGMA cipher machine collection
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Taken at the National Cryptologic Museum, NSA.
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Auguste Kerckhoffs postulated his eponymous principle back in the 19th century: "A cryptosystem should be secure even if everything about the system, except for the key, is public knowledge". This means that an effective cryptographic method does not have to be kept secret. If it were, you should wonder why.
Wibu-Systems has been true to this principle for several years. Blurry Box cryptography offers software protection that is completely based on publicly available methods and that can thus be assessed and compared. Blurry Box makes it so hard to counterfeit the software that it would be easier and faster to re-develop the application from scratch! www.wibu.com/protection-suite/blurry-box-cryptography.html.
To test the validity and strength of the newly patented encryption method Blurry Box, now integrated with the anti-debug and obfuscation methods of CodeMeter, Wibu-Systems launched a contest, open to all hackers around the globe. None of the 315 international participants managed to send in a full crack of the encryption scheme. www.blurrybox.com.
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Have you ever noticed the barcodes on your receipts?
I notice such useless details and I even try to decode them:
Electric Cow Company
or:
Elliptic curve cryptography,
Error-correcting code
Early childhood caries
Endocervical curettage
Eastern Conference Champions
Eugene Concert Choir
Evolution Control Committee,
Education through Communication for the Community
Electric Car Corporation
English China Clays
European Commodity Clearing
Eastern Christian College
El Camino College
Elgin Community College
Erie Community College
Ewing Christian College
Ecumenical Catholic Church,
Ecumenical Christian Centre,
Evangelical Covenant Church
Economic Coordination Committee
Electronic Check Counci
Emergency Control Centre,
Emergency Communications Centre
End Conscription Campaign,
Electronic Communications Committee
East Coast Conference
East Coast Conference
European Challenge Cup
European Champions Cup
European Cricket Counci
Engineered cementitious composite
European civil code
Met de opkomst van de cryptocurrency Bitcoin kwam ook de revolutionaire technologie in beeld; de blockchain. FIBER en de Brakke Grond presenteren een avond met de Vlaamse cyberfilosoof Michel Bauwens over de blockchain. Een gedecentraliseerde database die de basis vormt achter de controversiële Bitcoin.
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This is an image of 46 [=44] from University of Pennsylvania LJS 423: Dos discursos de la cifra, from Spain, dated to ca. 1600.
LJS 423 contains two works on ciphers. The first is more theoretical and describes ciphers based on subjects such as arithmetic, non-Roman alphabets (Greek, Hebrew) and writing systems (Egyptian, Chinese, Japanese, the writing of Indians of New Spain), astrology, musical notation, geography, currency, orthography, armorials, emblems, and enigmas. The second is a technical description of 24 different methods of enciphering and deciphering, using numerous tables, volvelles, movable sleeves, and grilles. Written by a cryptographer in the service of Martin de Cordova, viceroy of Navarre, and dedicated to Juan Fernandez de Velasco, Condestable de Castilla, a Spanish official who held government posts in Italy.
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The ENIGMA Uhr (Clock) was a mechanical device used by German armed forces in World War 2 to increase the security of the ENIGMA.
When the clock plugs were substitude for the original ones in the ENIGMA Plugboard (Steckerbrett) , the electricla current was directed through the clock. by simply turning the large knob on the clock, the ENIGMA operator could select 40 different plugging arrangments without rearranging the plugs.
Source National Cryptologic Museum
ENIGMA remains the best known German cryptographic machine of World War II.
ENIGMA cipher machine collection
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An Enigma machine is any of a family of related electro-mechanical rotor machines used for the encryption and decryption of secret messages. The first Enigma was invented by German engineer Arthur Scherbius at the end of World War I.[1] This model and its variants were used commercially from the early 1920s, and adopted by military and government services of several countries—most notably by Nazi Germany before and during World War II.[2] A range of Enigma models were produced, but the German military model, the Wehrmacht Enigma, is the version most commonly discussed.
The machine has become well-known because, during World War II, Polish and British codebreakers were able to decrypt a vast number of messages which had been enciphered using the Enigma. The intelligence gleaned from this source, codenamed ULTRA by the British, was a substantial aid to the Allied war effort. The exact influence of ULTRA on the course of the war is debated; an oft-repeated assessment is that decryption of German ciphers hastened the end of the European war by two years.[3][4][5]
Though the Enigma cipher had cryptographic weaknesses, in practice it was only in combination with other factors (procedural flaws, operator mistakes, occasional captured hardware and key tables, etc.) that those weaknesses allowed Allied cryptographers to cryptanalyze so many messages.
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Met de opkomst van de cryptocurrency Bitcoin kwam ook de revolutionaire technologie in beeld; de blockchain. FIBER en de Brakke Grond presenteren een avond met de Vlaamse cyberfilosoof Michel Bauwens over de blockchain. Een gedecentraliseerde database die de basis vormt achter de controversiële Bitcoin.
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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.
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Microsoft's booth at the RSA Expo used wireless keyboards vulnerable to the Keykeriki and GoodFET. The radio transmissions are in the Nordic RF style in the 2.4GHz band, 2Mbps. The Start of Frame Delimiter (SFD/Sync) is a 5-byte string unique to each keyboard/dongle set, and the closest thing to cryptography is that the string is XORed with the keypresses.
This vulnerability has been reported to Microsoft multiple times, but they refuse to document it.
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During World War 2, this model of the Japanese Type-97 cipher machine was known to American cryptanalysts as JADE. JADE was one of three varieties of Japanese machines that used a series of telephone selector switches to encipher r decipher top-level messages. The other two machines were known by the American designators CORAL and PURPLE. The Top Secret messages enciphered by JADE, CORAL, and PURPLE machines and transmitted by radio were intercepted and decrypted by American Army and Navy personnel. The information gained by this source was of the highest level of importance and was instrumental in the Allied victory in the Pacific.
Although no PURPLE cipher machine was ever captured intact, it is believed that PURPLE looked very much like JADE. This JADE machine was captured in Saipan in June, 1944.
Source: National Cryptologic Museum
Purple
In 1937, the next generation 97-shiki injiki(九七式印字機) ("Type 97 print machine") was completed. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs machine was the Angooki Taipu-B (暗号機 タイプB) ("Type B Cipher Machine"), codenamed Purple by United States cryptanalysts.
The chief designer of Purple was Kazuo Tanabe (田辺一雄). His engineers were Masaji Yamamoto (山本正治) and Eikichi Suzuki (鈴木恵吉). Eikichi Suzuki suggested use of stepping switch instead of the more troublesome half-rotor switch.
Clearly, the Purple machine was more secure than Red, but the Navy did not recognize that Red had already been broken. The Purple machine inherited a weak point from the Red machine, namely vowel-consonant separate encryption, which was called "sixes-twenties" by the US Army SIS.
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