April 2009
7 posts
uzbl: A browser that adheres to the unix... →
“In my opinion, any program can only be really useful if it complies to the unix philosophy. Web browsers are frequent violators of this principle. Time to change that!”. Follow link to the forum at the bottom of the page for a nice S/N discussion.
Scientists inch closer to cracking Indus Valley... →
Scientists may have moved a step closer to deciphering one of the three oldest languages in the world, that of the Indus Valley civilization by, interestingly enough, making a case that the markings found on artefacts from that era do indeed represent an underlying language and are not random marks.
Security Guidance for Criticial Areas of Focus in... →
Making the Diffie-Hellman Protocol Identity-Based →
“This paper presents a new identity based key agreement protocol. In id-based cryptography (introduced by Adi Shamir in [23]) each party uses its own identity as public key and receives his secret key from a master Key Generation Center, whose public parameters are publicly known. The novelty of our protocol is that it can be implemented over any cyclic group of prime order, where the...
SwarmScreen: Privacy Through Plausible Deniability... →
Using only the connection patterns gathered during a one-month period (comprising a stable population of 10,000 BitTorrent users), we extract communities of users that share interest in the same content. Despite the fact that connections in BitTorrent require not only shared interest in content, but also concurrent sessions, we find that strong communities of users naturally form – our analysis...