cryptic+quest

 Overview
The current state of cryptic arts has extended far and beyond the cutting-edge technology of the WWII era. With the integration of Internet, computers and smart-phones into mass society, examples of coding can be found by nearly anyone, and at anytime. After performing a quick google search regarding modern cryptography, I came across a recent article published by IBM. Linux for the IBM System z platform has been in development for the few years after it was realized that “software cryptography wasn’t cutting it for the growing web-server scenarios for Linux on the mainframe”. The support has since grown, “not only to include the SSL acceleration for clear-key applications at improved rates, but now extends to symmetric algorithms, digital signature and secure key functions”. The SSL handshake is apparently one of the most extensive crypto operations we (as users of modern technology) encounter daily. Typically an asymmetric RSA algorithm, an SSL handshake includes a public key and a private key. While the private key is held “secretly” by the owner, the public key is, well, public and can be used to “encrypt data for confidentiality, to sign data for integrity or to authenticate one user to the other”. While the range of algorithm and encrypted programs gets much more detailed than this within the new Linux program, the object of the development is to create a secure environment for virtually all aspects of business and industry operation.  Generally speaking, the cryptic mysteries that remain currently revolve around quantum cryptography and the reciprocal effects of its success. Described by wikipedia as “the use of quantum mechanical effects (in particular quantum communication and quantum computation) to perform cryptographic tasks or to break cryptographic systems”, quantum cryptographic developments include the bounded-and noisy-quantum-storage model and position-based quantum cryptography.

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