John Nash’s Letter to the NSA « Turing's Invisible Hand The National Security Agency (NSA) has recently declassified an amazing letter that John Nash sent to it in 1955.  It seems that around the year 1950 Nash tried to interest some US security organs …

Diceware Passphrase Home This page offers a better way to create a strong, yet easy to remember passphrase for use with encryption and security programs. Weak passwords and passphrases are one of the most common flaws in comp…

Squaring the Triangle: Secure, Decentralized, Human-Readable Names (Aaron Swartz's Raw Thought) When using computers, we like to refer to things with names. For example, this website is known as “www.aaronsw.com”. You can type that into your browser and read these words. There are th…

"...neither total success nor total failure of the government to keep secrets would protect the United States as well as a regime of mostly success with periodic, unpredictable failures."

PGP / GnuPG/ Open PGP Message Encryption in JavaScript For securing web forms with public key encryption.…