Patterns In The Void

I’m sitting in a cottage in the Italian countryside outside Florence, eating a breakfast of cafe brewed in an antique mocha, fette biscottate con riso with vegan hazelnutella and arance amare, a spread of bitter oranges. Outside the lead-paned window with iron fittings, I can see hills covered with vineyards, and a haze of clouds [...]

Sunday 7th August, 2011, Defcon 19, Las Vegas Whitfield Diffie & Moxie Marlinspike It was nice to hear my friend Moxie talk with another admirable cryptographer, Whitfield Diffie, a la Diffie-Hellman key exchange. I hope, if Mr. Diffie should happen to read this, that he shall excuse my link to RSA laboratories. However, it was [...]