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Key Management

Posted Tuesday, July 7, 2009 - 15:12 by David Perry

I’ve just read Robert Harris’ book ENIGMA which inspired me to watch the video starring Kate Winslet as plain (!) Hester and to do some digging into the cryptography behind the story. Some background… The Enigma machine was developed in the 1920s to encrypt text for commercial purposes, and was adapted and improved by the German military.

What is PKI?

Posted Sunday, June 7, 2009 - 01:20 by admin

This paper provides some insight into public key infrastructure and technology more generally. It is targeted at people who are new to the area or have read a little and are thoroughly confused by the myriad terms and acronyms.