Comments on: IST421 and lost the blog password!!

By: Ron

Ron — Sun, 28 Oct 2007 21:51:59 +0000

I keep all of my passwords on a separate USB drive. I protect this drive more than anything. Losing this is more important than losing my SS number. Which just brings up another thing I have to protect and worry about. I wonder how many other people have put their passwords on one of these drives and and lost it causing a breach of information?

By: exb902

exb902 — Sun, 09 Sep 2007 01:24:59 +0000

Thanks Rob I heard of Bletchley Park it mentioned something about WWII.

By: Rob Grabowski

Rob Grabowski — Wed, 05 Sep 2007 05:26:12 +0000

If you are interested in cryptography, a really excellent book to read is The Code Book by Simon Singh. He goes through codes and code-breaking from the Caesar cipher to quantum cryptography (in fact, this is one of the few discussions I've read on quantum subjects that I actually found comprehensible). There are great chapters on Bletchley Park, the cracking of Enigma, and the development of public-key cryptography. There's also a realy neat section where Mr. Singh explains how cryptographic techniques were used to "decipher" dead languages, such as Egyptian hieroglyphics and an unknown Minoan script. Very highly recommended.