Computer Security
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A honeypot is a deliberately exposed, isolated system or service designed to attract attackers, allowing defenders to observe intrusion techniques, collect threat intelligence, and divert malicious activity away from real assets. Honeypots mimic vulnerable systems or services but contain no legitimate data, so any interaction with them is inherently suspicious and highly valuable for analysis.…
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A stream cipher is a form of symmetric encryption that protects data by processing it in a continuous flow, usually one bit or one byte at a time. Instead of working with large, fixed‑size blocks of data, a stream cipher generates a keystream—a long sequence of pseudorandom bits—derived from a secret key and sometimes an…
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Energy could be considered a form of currency. But we’re (probably) not that far along, yet (as a society). The closest thing we have is an electronic P2P payment system that requires energy to work. It’s called bitcoin. It’s a fascinating science experiment that has required us (humanity) to rethink the fundamentals of computer security,…
