Special Interest Group on CRAP

At work the other day, one of the cafes had a theme that exploited the homophones of peas and peace. In particular the menu had a peace sign on it, and they had dishes that used peas in them. One of the dishes was “Visualize Whirled Peas”. Not only do the [...]

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Neal Koblitz recently wrote an article in the Notices of the American Mathematical Sociey titled The Uneasy Relationship Between Mathematics and Cryptography. This article is actually the third by Koblitz, following two previous articles with Alfred Menezes:

Another Look at “Provable Security”
Another Look at “Provable Security”, II

There’s something weird about the division in these communities, [...]

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