#cryptology

Riley S. Faelanriley@toot.cat
2026-02-10

A fascinating story of an orangutang cryptologist tiger team performing various replay attacks on orangutang Alice and Eveing what Alice then had to say to Bob.

youtube.com/watch?v=TXUcB7SLcM0

#infosec #cryptology #linguistics #ethology #zoology #zoolinguistics

The Wild Hunt NewsTheWildHuntNews
2026-01-14

A new study suggests the Voynich Manuscript’s famously unreadable text may have been produced using a historically plausible cipher, one that even incorporates playing cards and early Tarot, bringing scholars a step closer to understanding the manuscript’s mystery.

wildhunt.org/2026/01/reading-t

2026-01-13

The #OpenSource package for #cryptology analysis of S-boxes by H. Hadipour runs in #Python using the modularized pip-installable distributions of the #SageMath library from the passagemath project. github.com/hadipourh/sb...

GitHub - hadipourh/sboxanalyze...

readbeanicecreamreadbeanicecream
2026-01-04
McDonald_69McDonald_69
2025-11-26

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A firm considered one of the leading global voices in encryption has cancelled the announcement of its leadership election results after an official lost the encrypted key needed to unlock them.

The International Association for Cryptologic Research (IACR) uses an electronic voting system which needs three members, each with part of an encrypted key, to access the results.

bbc.com/news/articles/c62vl05r

Vladimir Savićfirusvg
2025-11-24

Well, sh*t happens. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

boffins' association to re-run election after losing encryption key needed to count votes theregister.com/2025/11/24/cry

#LochNess is a natural mega sensory illusion factory. Its no wonder people think they see living things. #cryptology #opticalillusion
youtu.be/9cZ8SQBnYDk
Maria Truthmariatruth
2025-09-12

Is there a better system? Maybe it is the best it can be. Or not perfect still. But still it is not possible to catch every single injustice and innocents pay the price instead of the guilty. It needs improvement towards this way but it seems economy limits everything. At least there is some form of peace, people who smile, evolution, products that make life easier. But what moral person can enjoy the joys of life when justice is wrong?

◇ Maria Truth
...Always Innocent

Maria Truthmariatruth
2025-09-12

Some people do not want to have sex and consider it rape. However, the system's people they all want sex. The system should keep the people in the system. The system should be just. They consider them innocent and the others guilty. But how. They all pretend to be the exact opposite and create fake evidence for the innocents.

◇ Maria Truth
...Always Innocent

Maria Truthmariatruth
2025-09-12

There must be a way to reverse the lies. But it seems that people are made to think this way that once they shape an opinion about someone or something it is very difficult to change it especially for the opposite unless a big issue occurs. And even if they want to do that, if they are part of a system, the system forces them to follow the trend of condemning so as to not exclude them.

◇ Maria Truth
...Always Innocent

Maria Truthmariatruth
2025-09-12

Only the guilty survive nowadays and present themselves as innocents in the media. And they make you consider the innocents as guilty. Fascistic! The only way to fix this is to consider the guilty as innocents and the innocents as guilty. The fame is always innocent. Fame is always covered.

◇ Maria Truth
...Always Innocent

Flipboard Art & Photo DeskArtPhotosDesk@flipboard.social
2025-08-14

35 years ago, Jim Sanborn presented the cryptographic sculpture Kryptos to the Central Intelligence Agency in Langley, Virginia. Made from copper, granite, quartz and petrified wood, it has four sections, each of which holds a message in code. Over the years, three of the sections have been solved — by CIA code breakers, a California computer scientist, and the National Security Agency. Now, 79-year-old Sanborn says he's going to auction off the solution to the final message, with the company arranging the sale estimating a winning bid between $300,000 and $500,000. Here's @newyorktimes's story on why he's doing it now, and what he hopes the winning bidder will do with the secret.

flip.it/_TN3II

#Science #Technology #Mathematics #Codebreaking #Kryptos #JimSanborn #Art #Sculpture #Cryptology #Cryptography #Cryptanalysis

2025-08-07
I'm looking for more #cryptology and #cryptography related profiles to follow. Recommends appreciated.
2025-07-31

"William is the history: a key to what’s inside me, to where I’m from. My cipher." New on Longreads: An excerpt from Jeremy B. Jones's forthcoming memoir about his ancestor's encrypted diaries, and how the secrets we carry are revealed longreads.com/2025/07/31/code- #history #code #cryptology #books

Rationalgarde (Bahngrusel)rationalgarde@pixelfed.social
2025-07-25
Centrum Szyfrów Enigma @ Poznan

#poznan #cryptology
Comic-style painting of a man with a tie and glasses on a wall - Marian Rejewski
2025-07-18

@rebeccawatson There actually *are* ways of performing age verification in a privacy-preserving way, thanks to zero-knowledge proof cryptography:

github.com/zkpassport

StRanGeLY tHoUgH, governments don't seem interested in merely knowing that a user truly is >=$some_age, and not knowing anything else about them. They really, *really* wanna know who the perverts^W adults are.

#zkp #zkproof #cryptography #cryptology

Vladimir Savićfirusvg
2025-07-10
earthlingappassionato
2025-06-16

Enigma Myth Deciphered. Codebreakers, Commanders and Politicians by Marek Grajek, 2024

This unique new volume analyses source documents both previously known and recently declassified, generating an extremely broad and original synthesis about Enigma.

@bookstodon




The author uses his experience as a cryptologist to fill in gaps in the sources or to correct misguided interpretations, also adding the passion of a journalist, drawing a vivid picture of the characters and the story. As a Pole, he presents this story through the lens of the fate of the Polish mathematicians who were the first to break the cipher as early as 1932 and laid the foundations for the subsequent Allied success.
The book’s coverage ranges from the mathematical foundations of codebreaking, through the complex fates of the people and organisations involved in the attacks on the Enigma ciphers, the impact of decrypts on the fate of the major campaigns of the Second World War, to the role that wartime cryptology and codebreakers played in the birth of digital civilisation. The Polish mathematicians’ story is presented in the full context of the struggle with the cipher, including the complex interplay between codebreakers, military commanders and politicians of the UK, US, Poland, France, and the Third Reich.
By looking at events through the eyes of a cryptologist rather than solely as a historian, the reader is given a glimpse into the backstage of the cryptologic workshop; a better understanding of the scale and nature of the challenges codebreakers faced; and insights into their responses to those challenges, as well as the emotions, dilemmas, disappointments, and triumphs involved.

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