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The BBC reports that a rebuilt Colossus is cracking codes again at Bletchley Park.
COLOSSUS was the world's first programmable electronic computer, so this is considered something of an achievement. However, COLOSSUS was really only built to do one job.
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Continue reading Coincidence, Colussus and Fish.
Over at Lard Bucket, Andy Schmitz looks at Adi Shamir's secret sharing method. He identifies what he considers a possible flaw in the method, using an example from the Wikipedia entry, and invites readers to critique his reasoning.
The executive summary: Andy's reasoning is 100% correct, and so is Shamir's assertion (in the paper) that the method does not leak information.
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Continue reading Shamir's secret sharing.
