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Cryptanalysis of SIMON-32/64 NSA

Cryptanalysis of SIMON-32/64

A weird paper was posted on the Cryptology ePrint Archive (working link is via the Wayback Machine), claiming an attack against the NSA-designed cipher SIMON. You can read some commentary about it here. Basically, the authors claimed an attack so devastating …
bubmag
May 14, 2019
Links 5/14/19 Monsanto

Links 5/14/19

Deepest ever dive finds plastic bag at bottom of Mariana Trench CNN Escalating Floods Putting Mississippi River’s Old River Control Structure at Risk Weather Underground Los Angeles Fire Season Is Beginning Again. And It Will Never End. A bulletin from our …
bubmag
May 14, 2019
Game of Thrones season 8: Daenerys’ decimation of King’s Landing needs to be seen in the context of this historical event Hiroshima

Game of Thrones season 8: Daenerys’ decimation of King’s Landing needs to be seen in the context of this historical event

Game of Thrones season 8 episode 5 has concluded and left in its wake a few beautiful moments, lots of shattered fan expectations, and several nuanced thinkpieces. There were certain scenes in The Bells (full episode recap here) that are worthy of mention: T…
bubmag
May 14, 2019
Ecuador has reportedly agree to hand the US any hard drives, documents, computers, and cell phones found in the embassy room where Julian Assange lived for nearly 7 years Julian Assange

Ecuador has reportedly agree to hand the US any hard drives, documents, computers, and cell phones found in the embassy room where Julian Assange lived for nearly 7 years

Officials in Ecuador have reportedly agreed to handover any documents, including hard drives, computers, and cell phones to US authorities as they search the Ecuadorian embassy where WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange was previously holed up for nearly 7 years.…
bubmag
May 14, 2019