Jun, Vice President of technology at Cryptography Research, said that once online he was able to access a database showing what those he knew had purchased at various Nike stores.

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On Wednesday, Dan Geer, Alex Hutton and Greg Shannon plan to give a talk at the cybersecurity-focused conference SOURCE in Boston on using prediction markets to gain foresight into future events in cryptography research, cyber threats, and even data security-related regulation.

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Mr. Kocher, whose company, Cryptography Research, develops and licenses custom chips to protect data networks and prevent content piracy, says tech companies are making reasonable choices about safeguards, but fare poorly in some studies because they are better at discovering they have been hacked.

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Lastly, research into computer science and cryptography for academic purposes should be lawful (read more on the topic here).

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Research conducted by Adi Shamir, one of the pioneers of the RSA algorithm for public-key cryptography which forms the basis of online security today indicates that bitcoin markets indicated that all the large bitcoin transactions over the past few years seem to have the same originating source, related to a single large transaction that took place in November 2010.

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They stole information from a research version of a system made by ID Quantique, a Swiss firm that is trying to commercialise quantum cryptography, by taking advantage of synchronisation signals that pass between Alice and Bob.

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