A cryptanalytic computer is a computer designed to be used for cryptanalysis, which nowadays involves massive statistical analysis and multiple trial decryptions...
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Cryptanalysis (redirect from Cryptanalytic)
attack. Cryptographic attacks can be characterized in a number of ways: Cryptanalytical attacks can be classified based on what type of information the attacker...
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IBM 7950 Harvest (redirect from Harvest computer)
declined to re-implement the architecture in a more modern technology. Cryptanalytic computer IBM (May 1, 1957). Preliminary Manual, Harvest System (PDF). IBM...
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designed for a range of cryptanalytic tasks, most involving counting the results of evaluating Boolean algorithms. A Colossus computer was thus not a fully...
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Cryptography (redirect from Computer Cryptology)
originated among the Arabs, the first people to systematically document cryptanalytic methods. Al-Khalil (717–786) wrote the Book of Cryptographic Messages...
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Energy and the National Nuclear Security Administration IBM 7950: Cryptanalytic computer using 7030 as CPU; 1962 (Harvest) IBM 7951: IBM 7950 Stream coprocessor...
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FROSTBURG (category Cryptanalytic devices)
FROSTBURG is now on display at the National Cryptologic Museum. HARVEST Cryptanalytic computer "Ten of the coolest and most powerful supercomputers of all time"...
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Cryptanalysis of the Enigma • Cryptanalysis of the Lorenz cipher • Cryptanalytic computer • Cryptex • Cryptico • Crypto AG • Crypto-anarchism • Crypto API...
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Data Encryption Standard (category Computer-related introductions in 1977)
According to Steven Levy, IBM Watson researchers discovered differential cryptanalytic attacks in 1974 and were asked by the NSA to keep the technique secret...
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British Tabulating Machine Company (redirect from HEC computer)
HEC 1 computer.htm". Our Computer Heritage. Computer Conservation Society. 2 April 2012. Archived from the original on 2 April 2012. "Computer Conservation...
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Colossus computer vacuum tube cryptanalytic supercomputer, 1943 1×106: computing power of the Motorola 68000 commercial computer introduced in 1979.[citation...
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Bombe (category Cryptanalytic devices)
February 1945), "Appendix II: U. S. Army Cryptanalytic Bombe", Solving the Enigma: History of the Cryptanalytic Bombe, a NSA phamphlet, archived from the...
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Hardware security module (category Cryptanalytic devices)
form of a plug-in card or an external device that attaches directly to a computer or network server. A hardware security module contains one or more secure...
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method of mathematical proof Brute-force attack, a cryptanalytic attack Brute-force search, a computer problem-solving technique Brute Force (musician)...
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mechanism (KEM) designed to be resistant to cryptanalytic attacks with future powerful quantum computers. It is used to establish a shared secret between...
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algorithms) that are currently thought to be secure against a cryptanalytic attack by a quantum computer. Most widely-used public-key algorithms rely on the difficulty...
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Alan Turing (category Computer chess people)
violating the Act. Specifying the bombe was the first of five major cryptanalytical advances that Turing made during the war. The others were: deducing...
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the industry has a considerably more advanced understanding of the cryptanalytic strength of common symmetric-key and public-key algorithms, these challenges...
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List of educational software (section Computer science)
hardware projects Bouncy Castle CrypTool - illustrates cryptographic and cryptanalytic concepts Britannica Encarta Encyclopædia Britannica Ultimate Reference...
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generators or in their initialization vectors is disastrous and has led to cryptanalytic breaks in the past. Therefore, it is essential that an implementation...
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and nondeterministic space complexity Hellman, Martin (July 1980). "A Cryptanalytic Time-Memory Tradeoff". IEEE Transactions on Information Theory. 26 (4):...
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cryptography research community, since an argument can be made that any cryptanalytic research violates, or might violate, the DMCA. The arrest of Russian...
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Banburismus was a cryptanalytic process developed by Alan Turing at Bletchley Park in Britain during the Second World War. It was used by Bletchley Park's...
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the industry has a considerably more advanced understanding of the cryptanalytic strength of common symmetric-key and public-key algorithms, these challenges...
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effort began the tradition of using the words "squeamish ossifrage" in cryptanalytic challenges. The difficulty of breaking the RSA cipher—recovering a plaintext...
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In cryptography, a brute-force attack or exhaustive key search is a cryptanalytic attack that consists of an attacker submitting many possible keys or...
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isogeny graph and was designed to resist cryptanalytic attack by an adversary in possession of a quantum computer. Before it was broken, SIDH boasted one...
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National Security Agency (redirect from National Computer Security Center)
in 1919. The Black Chamber was the United States' first peacetime cryptanalytic organization. Jointly funded by the Army and the State Department, the...
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Eli Biham (category Israeli computer scientists)
family of fast stream ciphers (see article for more detail on their cryptanalytic status). SHAvite-3 (with Orr Dunkelman), a hash function which was one...
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In cryptography, rotational cryptanalysis is a generic cryptanalytic attack against algorithms that rely on three operations: modular addition, rotation...
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