Bitcoin security
I've been learning about Bitcoin lately. It's an electronic currency. I've seen electronic currency before - in the late 90s there were efforts to create them based on virtual banks issuing coins. The...
View ArticleLords of a new economy
Pondering Bitcoin, I recently opined: Who sets the difficulty of the puzzle and all that? The computers in the network do - when the system was created, rules were agreed, and written into the...
View ArticleCloud Storage
Currently, you can go to various providers and buy online storage capacity (IMHO, rsync.net is best, after research I did to find an offsite backup host for work). It's more expensive than a hard disk...
View ArticleThe Tooth Fairy Left a Letter
Jean lost her second tooth in the new house yesterday and spent the day worrying that they wouldn't find it as we still haven't found the tooth cusion I'd made her. She was also doing lots of wondering...
View ArticleTuring Centenary
Alan Turing one of the most important people in the history of the computer would have turned 100 today if he had lived. Though the chances of living to 100 are not great Turing didn't even manage to...
View ArticleBuilding an online currency exchange
The biggest currency exchange market in the Bitcoin world is MtGox. When it goes down, either due to a DDoS attack or sheer high load due to everyone panic-selling, then people who hold bitcoins and...
View ArticlePublic key cryptography wish list
I have opined in the past about how I'd like better support for public key infrastructure in applications and user interfaces, and a few ideas for how to generalise the signature infrastructure a bit,...
View ArticlePrivacy
I have a looser attitude towards privacy than most people, but I have began to reconsider that lately. Generally, I believed (and still do) that anything I do in public is pretty much exempt from...
View ArticleIs information security good?
One of the interesting things to have come from Edward Snowden's leaks of classified documents is that the American National Security Agency has been working to introduce flaws into the design and...
View ArticleInsomnia
There's something about the combination of having spent many weeks in a row without more than the odd half-hour here and there to myself (time when I get to do whatever I like, rather than merely...
View ArticleDebugging poor home wifi at the Snell-Pym residence
So, we have a fairly complicated network at home - the Snell-Pym Family Mainframe has a dedicated DSL link with a static IP for hosting various Internet-facing things, as well as providing internal...
View ArticleA draft specificion for IRIDIUM
As discussed in my previous post, I think it's lame that we use TCP for everything and think we could do much better!. Here's my concrete proposal for IRIDIUM, a protocol that I think could be a great...
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