I have just submitted application for registration for Sixth International Summer School in Cognitive Sciences and Semantics. To be more specific, for the intensive course: Quantum computing, logic and cognition. This school takes place at University of Latvia in Riga from 27 July to 29 July. And tuition fee is 100...
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Removing RSA keys by acoustic cryptanalysis
Image from: xkcd The famous cryptographer Adi Shamir and his colleagues published a scientific paper titled "RSA Key Extraction via Low-Bandwidth Acoustic Cryptanalysis" Many computers emit high frequency sound during operation, because of the vibrations in some electronic components (capacitors) caused due to microscopic variations in the voltage of...
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The TrueCrypt Audit
Given the recent news about NSA's ability to foil encryption soft wares, cryptographer Matthew Green and Kenneth White has started an initiative to examine the Truecrypt disk encryption tool. Why does it matter? Since NSA has been snooping in our data without us knowing, decryption of SSL connections and tampering with established standards to...
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Exact quantum query algorithms
For the paper "Exact quantum query complexity of EXACT and THRESHOLD" by Andris Ambainis, Jānis Iraids & Juris Smotrovs; Maris Ozols, on his blog has posted an excellent analysis of this paper.
meQuanics - The Quantum Computing Game
Researchers from National Institute of Informatics(NII) have published a Web applications to advance the study of the quantum computer in the form of a game 'meQuanics'; previously called as "Qubit - the game". It is basically a puzzle game where the puzzles are represented as circuit of the quantum computer. Each...
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