| I’m from the Government and I’m here to help - Sat, 12 May 2012 09:48:42 +0000 |
| Two years ago, Hyoungshick Kim, Jun Ho Huh and I wrote a paper On the Security of Internet banking in South Korea in which we discussed an IT security policy that had gone horribly wrong. The Government of Korea had tried in 1998 to secure electronic commerce by getting all the banks to use an [...] |
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| Three paper Thursday: Shamir x3 at Eurocrypt - Thu, 19 Apr 2012 15:02:40 +0000 |
| For the past 4 days Cambridge has been hosting Eurocrypt 2012.There were many talks, probably interesting, but I will only comment on 3 talks given by Adi Shamir, 1 during the official conference and 2 during the rump session.Among the other sessions I mention that the best paper was given to this paper by Antoine [...] |
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| Scrambling for Safety 2012 - Thu, 12 Apr 2012 09:21:27 +0000 |
| On the first of April, the Sunday Times carried a story that the Home Secretary planned to expand the scope of the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act. Some thought this was an April Fool, but no: security minister James Brokenshire confirmed the next day that it was for real. This led to much media coverage; [...] |
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