Cryptocurrency users who also gamble tend to be more mentally involved compared to their non-gambling counterparts, according to new research published in Computers in Human Behavior. The new study provides insight into some of the psychological patterns that characterize heavy cryptocurrency users.

Cryptocurrency is a digital asset designed to work as a medium of exchange that uses strong cryptography to secure financial transactions, control the creation of additional units, and verify the transfer of assets. Bitcoin, the first and most well-known cryptocurrency, was created in 2009. Since then, cryptocurrencies have become increasingly popular. But prices can fluctuate rapidly and investing in cryptocurrencies involves substantial risk.

The risk-taking aspect of cryptocurrencies has led researchers to examine the potential link between cryptocurrency trading and problem gambling. Study author Fred Steinmetz noted that trust in cryptocurrency and ideological motivation might play a substantial role in the use of cryptocurrency. Furthermore, little is known about cryptocurrency users who also gamble

Since the beginning of my research journey in 2015, my research topics included blockchain technology, cryptocurrency, and gambling. It was only logical for me to start investigating the intersections between these topics, said study author Fred Steinmetz, co-founder of the non-profit Blockchain Research Lab and author of Blockchain and the Digital Economy: The Socio-Economic Impact of Blockchain Technology.

For his study, Steinmetz analyzed a representative sample of 3,864 Germans regarding their use of cryptocurrency and engagement in gambling over the past year. The data was collected in 2019.

The participants were categorized into four separate groups: there were 1,844 non-users (who neither gambled nor ever used cryptocurrency), there were 1,312 gamblers (who had gambled recently but never owned cryptocurrency), there were 708 crypto-users (who at some point owned cryptocurrency but had not gambled recently), and there were 435 crypto-gamblers (who at some point owned cryptocurrency and had also gambled recently).

Crypto-gamblers reported having significantly higher levels of knowledge about blockchain technology along with higher levels of trust in cryptocurrency. Crypto-gamblers were also much more likely, compared to regular crypto-users, to consider their ownership of cryptocurrency to be ideologically motivated.

Cryptocurrency is not only about trading alternative financial assets. In differentiation to, e.g. trading stocks, cryptocurrency users experience a different mental involvement, which relate to the narratives and ideologies which permeate the industry, Steinmetz told PsyPost. Cryptocurrency users with gambling affinity are more involved mentally, proactively and financially than non-gambling users.

In addition, crypto-gamblers tended to be younger, more likely to be male, better educated, and better off financially than non-gambling crypto-users. The profiles of crypto-gamblers resemble those of skill-based gamblers and stock traders but differ in terms of their average young age, Steinmetz wrote in his study.

The crypto-gamblers were further broken down into three distinct clusters. One cluster consisted of those with high ideological motivation and trust toward cryptocurrency and a moderate level of financial investment who used their cryptocurrency for the purpose of speculating relatively infrequently. The second cluster had high ideological motivation and trust, a high level of investment, and frequently engaged in cryptocurrency speculation. The third cluster consisted of crypto-gamblers with low ideological motivation and trust, low levels of investment, and low levels of cryptocurrency speculation.

Among crypto-users who also gamble, I identified a group which comprises the heavy users, who are highly engaged and potentially consider cryptocurrency and gambling substitutes, Steinmetz told PsyPost. The interrelations among the investigated variables suggest that high levels of mental involvement among crypto-users who also gamble induces higher engagement in terms of owning more cryptocurrencies and speculating more often.

The second cluster of heavy users accounted for a sizable share of crypto-gamblers. A ~35% share of heavy users among all cryptocurrency users who also gamble was not expected. This warrants further research on the domain, Steinmetz said.

The results suggest that rather than focusing solely on trading frequencies of cryptocurrency, researchers should broaden their scope by recognizing the importance of mental involvement of cryptocurrency users, e.g. trust-perceptions, proclaimed knowledge about cryptocurrency and ideological motivation, the researcher said.

The study, The interrelations of cryptocurrency and gambling: Results from a representative survey, was published online on August 22, 2022.

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WhenBitcoinBTC/USD-0.72%introduced a peer-to-peer (P2P) lending system in 2009 facilitated by its native token, the world was awe-inspired and suspicious over the merits of adecentralized financial system.

More than a decade later, BTC has not only emerged as the worlds largest cryptocurrency by market capitalization but has also spurred the adoption of blockchain technology across multiple industries. It has also spawned a number of applications, such as decentralized finance (DeFi), which are revolutionizing the way humans transact.

Yet, with the rise of a new breed ofquantum computers, the dominance of blockchain-powered protocols like that of Bitcoin could be challenged in the near future.

While traditional computers use bits to process and store information by switching between 0 and 1, quantum computers use qubits that can simultaneously exist in both states.

These computers can be millions of times faster than the best supercomputers today.

With this kind of computing supremacy, malicious entities could exploit the advantages of quantum computing to launch attacks onprotocols like Bitcoin, in an attempt to steal funds from the millions of cryptocurrency users that transact via the internet today.

By employing storage attacks or transit attacks, bad actors could attack vulnerable wallet addresses or even target transactions.

At the same time, they are being processed on the blockchain. Storage attacks are seemingly a bigger possibility since it is dependent on how securely tokens are being held by various users, while transit attacks are beyond the realm of a current lot of quantum computers in existence today.

Currently, Bitcoin and other blockchain protocols arent particularly susceptible to quantum computing attacks. Thats because quantum computers havent progressed beyond 100 qubits in terms of processing capacity. This limits the possibility of an attack on a protocol as large and secure as that of Bitcoin.

But technology is progressing at a rapid pace, and quantum computers with more than a million qubits could become a reality within the next decade.

With that kind of computing power, the Bitcoin network in its current form would be severely compromised by cybercriminals.

There are a number of projects that are working to tweak or introduce new architectures that would make protocols even more secure.

Indeed, blockchain technology is continuously evolving as developers and entrepreneurs strive to innovate.

Moving away from elliptic curve cryptography (ECC), which focuses on a set of public and private keys to encrypt data, will be one of the most immediate tasks at hand for crypto developers.

Recognizing the need for more robust and attack-proof solutions, a number of projects are exploring alternate cryptographic methods to secure the next generation of Bitcoin and other protocols.

Some notable examples of quantum-resistant technologies include:

Each of these methods has adopted different approaches to ensure that their respective networks can resist quantum computing attacks.

But the key message remains: the crypto developer community would be wise to prepare for any risks posed by quantum computing.

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Step away from Twitter. Stop doom-scrolling.

Yes, I know, American democracy is under assault. Russian President Vladimir Putin is muttering dark warnings about nuclear weapons in the face of heroic and historic resistance by Ukraine. Dozens of people are dead and large swaths of Florida have been devastated by Hurricane Ian. And Kanye West did something so uniformly awful in Paris that I was forced to Google the tone-deaf thing that Kanye West did in Paris.

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These are bleak times, indeed. And the urge to simply throw your hands up in the air and declare yourself quit of the whole business is overwhelming. Im right there with you.

But before you hit Amazon for the best deal on yurts and start Googling How to become a digital nomad, at least three things have happened in the last week that, if they do not fully restore your faith in humanity, will at least keep the flame alive.

On Tuesday, a trio of researchers were awarded the Nobel Prize in physics for their experiments in quantum information science, which, according to the Washington Post, could revolutionize computing, cryptography, and information-transfer by a method called quantum teleportation.

The honors for John F. Clauser, 79, of Walnut Creek, Calif., Alain Aspect, 75, of Universit Paris-Saclay and cole Polytechnique in France, and Anton Zeilinger, 77, of the University of Vienna in Austria, came just a day after the Nobel committee honored another extraordinary accomplishment.

If we want to solve all those problems that have us doom-scrolling in the first place, we need to train and educate a generation of young people who can do that.

On Monday, Swedish scientist Svante Pbo took home the Nobel for medicine for sequencing the Neanderthal genome, helping to launch a new field of ancient DNA study, and, as an added bonus, helping scientists track genetic differences in modern humans and their role in disease including COVID-19, the New York Times reported.

And last week, NASA successfully crashed a spacecraft into an asteroid, all in an effort to prove whether it was possible to defend our very fragile planet from interstellar threats, the Washington Post also reported.

By themselves, any one of these achievements represent a massive expansion of human knowledge and scientific achievement.

Taken together, however, theyre not only a trifecta of weapons-grade wonkishness, but also a welcome reminder of the liberating power of education in a year in which too many parents were working overtime to get Toni Morrisons books (also a Nobel winner) yanked from their kids school library.

Its been widely reported that the United States is in the midst of a historic teacher shortage, with educators fleeing the profession because of high demands and low pay, PTSD from the pandemic, and culture wars run amuck.

If were pressed, every one of us can point to a teacher who made a critical difference at a crucial moment, whether through a kind word, or extra help on a particularly challenging assignment. Other educators go even further, advocating for their students when theres no one else there to speak for them. Some, tragically, have even given their lives to keep our children safe.

So I cant help but wonder if were depriving ourselves of the next Svante Pbo or John F. Clauser when a gifted educator decides to leave the classroom in favor of a job that not only pays a livable wage, but also is 100-percent free of school board meetings that turn into political food fights.

If we want to solve all those problems that have us doom-scrolling in the first place, we need to train and educate a generation of young people (hopefully unencumbered by crippling student debt) who can do that. We have to ground them in fact, not conspiracy; wrap them in hope, not despair; and bequeath them welcoming unity, not endless division.

So take a moment, if you would, to celebrate and pay tribute to the transformative work of not only the Nobel-honored scientists, but all those, whose names we might never know, who are working every day to expand our knowledge and save lives.

And there, in the quiet, as you do that, Im betting that whatever despair youre feeling will give way to hope; to the spark that gives way to a flame, lighting the fire of knowledge that carries all of us forward.

And then, if you must, go back to doom-scrolling.

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The winners of the 2023 Breakthrough Prizes in Fundamental Physics, Life Sciences, and Mathematics have been announced together with several other early career awards given by the Breakthrough Prize. Of the five main prizes, three are awarded in Life Science, one in fundamental Physics, and one in Math, each worth $3 million for a total of $15 million.

The first Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences this year has gone to Demis Hassabis and John Jumper from DeepMind for their work using AI methods to work out the structure of proteins. The second prize went to Clifford P. Brangwynne and Anthony A. Hyman for working out how the inside of a cell organizes itself.

The third prize has been awarded to Emmanuel Mignot and Masashi Yanagisawa who discovered independently from each other the causes of narcolepsy.

I have to say that I never received such recognition. When I first started to work on this disease, nobody really cared that much about it, Professor Mignot, from Stanford University told IFLScience. I've been very lucky in my life to be able to make a difference.

And the difference has been significant. People with narcolepsy not only have trouble sleeping and staying awake but they can also suffer from temporary paralysis when they laugh. In the 1990s, Mignot began working with narcoleptic dogs to work out the cause of it. The work done in his lab and that of Yanagisawa led to the recognition of its causes.

Narcolepsy is a disease of the brain. A growing body of evidence suggests it may be an autoimmune disorder. Immune cells attack the cells that produce orexin, a chemical that regulates wakefulness.

Since Mignot and Yanagisawa's discovery, the approach to treating sleep disorders has changed and drugs are now being studied that could make all the symptoms disappear. The drugs are in clinical trials so they are not quite ready yet, but current data are extremely promising. And Mignot is very optimistic: the revolution is on the verge of happening.

Mignot has worked with hundreds of patients over the last two decades and he continues to study narcolepsy as well as other autoimmune diseases of the brain.

The Breakthrough Prize in Mathematics has been awarded to Daniel A. Spielman for his many contributions to theoretical computer science and mathematics. Meanwhile, the Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics went to Charles H. Bennett, Gilles Brassard, David Deutsch, and Peter Shor for their work in quantum information.

Their work has laid the foundations for what has now become a vast variety of fields from quantum cryptography to quantum teleportation. These pioneers created the basis and more of the theory of quantum information the theory at the core of how quantum computers might work one day.

Quantum computers are not overall superior to classical ones. They're only superior to them for certain applications. That is, when they are executing certain quantum algorithms, they can do better, Professor Deutsch, from the University of Oxford, told IFLScience. "And it is thought, and I think I agree, that some of those things that quantum computers can do tremendously better than any classical computer are potentially useful.

Quantum computers are expected to be able to conduct analysis and simulations with a speed that could revolutionize many technical fields from material science to medicine.

Over the last decade, Professor Deutsch has worked on a radical new way to explain fundamental physics: Constructor Theory. Physical laws in this theory are expressed in terms of physical transformations that are possible versus those that are impossible. An example would be comparing how a drop of ink dissolves in a glass of water (possible) versus ink suddenly clumping up into a single drop and popping out of the water (impossible).

Constructor Theory requires, just like quantum theory did, jarring changes in how one looks at the world. And for that very reason, I expect it to reveal new insights into what the universe is like what it's all about, Professor Deutsch told IFLScience.

There are also early-career awards given out together with the main prizes. This year, there are six New Horizons prizes each worth $100,000 given to 11 physicists and mathematicians.

Three mathematics prizes were given to Ana Caraiani, Ronen Eldan, and James Maynard. Two of the physics prizes went respectively to David Simmons-Duffin and Anna Grassellino. The final physics prize was shared between Hannes Bernien, Manuel Endres, Adam M. Kaufman, Kang-Kuen Ni, Hannes Pichler, and Jeff Thompson for their work creating optical tweezer arrays that allow us to manipulate individual atoms.

The Breakthrough Prize also awards the Maryam Mirzakhani New Frontiers Prize and the New Horizons Prizes in Mathematics and Physics. The Maryam Mirzakhani New Frontiers Prize is awarded to early-career women mathematicians and this year the winners are Maggie Miller, Jinyoung Park, and Vera Traub. Each received $50,000.

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Microsoft shut down Azure Blockchain Service a little over a year ago last September, however, it's letting its venture fund M12 invest in Space and Time's "Proof-of-SQL" cryptography technology to possible backlink into Azure in the future.

According to a write up by TechCrunch, Space and Time managed a $20 million round of funding recently with Microsoft's M12 venture fund leading the investment pile.

Among M12's investment parties for the Time and Space's vision of automated business logics are Framework Ventures, HashKy, SevenX Ventures, Foresight Ventures, Polygon and Avalanche's Blizzard ecosystem fund.

As CEO and co-founder of Space and Time Nate Holiday puts it, M12 is investing in "...a world where smart contracts will operate the business logic of the world through advance automation." Holiday and co hopes to achieve its goals by using its "Proof-of-SQL" cryptography, which would automate the business logic used in traditional centralized systems and applying that directly to smart contracts and eventually into Microsoft Azure to give users access to its blockchain data.

Ultimately, Space and Time's technology is intended to give blockchain developers the tools needed to build multi-chain decentralized apps (dApps) at lower cost and scale Web3 into a more robust and safer platform.

Space and Time will roll out a limited preview for DeFi and gaming protocols at the end of the year with an eye on a test net phase scheduled for Spring 2023 and a possible production launch at the end of next year.

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As part of its strategic development, the Department of Informatics is seeking applications from candidates for the position of Lecturer in Computer Science (Cryptography), starting in September 2023, or as soon as possible thereafter.

The successful applicant for this post will undertake research and teaching in an area of Cryptography and more broadly Cybersecurity. They will be assigned to teach on the Departments MSc in Cybersecurity (face to face and/or online), or other postgraduate or undergraduate degree programmes offered by the Department of Informatics, and will be expected to supervise both undergraduate and postgraduate projects. While we cannot guarantee teaching in cryptography, we hope to expand our cryptography teaching portfolio in the near future.

Accordingly, the successful applicant will need knowledge and awareness of current research and practical challenges in Cryptography. All areas of cryptography are of interest to the Department, including but not limited to theory (TCC), applied (RWC), public-key (PKC), symmetric-key (FSE) and embedded systems and hardware (CHES). Outstanding candidates engaged in research and teaching which complements that of the existing members of the Department will be considered favourably.

The successful candidate will be appointed to the Cybersecurity (CYS) group[A1][A2] and will have the opportunity to contribute to the Security Hub and to the Kings EPSRC-NCSC Academic Centre of Excellence in Cybersecurity Research (ACE-CSR) -https://www.kcl.ac.uk/cybersecurity-centre. The successful candidate will have the opportunity to collaborate with colleagues in the new cryptography lab launching in January 2023 [A3]and other labs in the CYS group. Research collaboration across research groups, with departmental hubs and with other Departments in the Faculty and across the College is strongly encouraged.

The mission of CYS is to conduct word-class research to address research and practical challenges in Cybersecurity such as the ones listed above through six main interconnected pillars: (i) Trustworthy AI; (ii) Formal and automated (program) analysis for verification and testing of security protocols and systems; (iii) Human-Centred Security and Privacy; (iv) Provenance and Trust; (v) Systems Security; and (vi) Cryptography.

To realise our mission, we look at security & privacy challenges with a broad perspective and regularly sit in the program committees of and publish in top-tier and well-known venues in Cryptography (EUROCRYPT, CRYPTO, ASIACRYPT, IACR Area Workshops), Security & Privacy (e.g., IEEE S&P, USENIX Security, ACM CCS, NDSS, IEEE CSF, USENIX SOUPS, IEEE TDSC, IEEE TIFS, ACM TOPS), Artificial Intelligence (e.g., IJCAI, AAMAS, IEEE TKDE), Measurement (e.g., WWW, IMC), Software Engineering (e.g., IEEE TSE), and Human-Computer Interaction (e.g., CHI, CSCW, TOCHI).

Top-quality research establishes CYS members as leaders in their fields, but it is its transformative aspect that provides the opportunity to serve the society while supporting Kings as an outstanding institution in science and technology. As such, CYS has strong links with industry and civil society organisations, which engages with us in collaborative research projects.

Applicantsmust have a PhD, an excellent publication record, and the ability to attract research funding.It is essential that applicants have the enthusiasm and commitment required to contribute to the further development of the research standing of the Department of Informatics, and to make a full contribution to teachingandadministrative activities.

Diversity is positively encouraged with a number of family-friendly policies, including the operation of a core hours policy, the right to apply for flexible working and support for staff returning from periods of extended absence, for example maternity leave. The Department of Informatics is committed to ensuring an inclusive interview process and will reimburse up to 250 towards any additional care costs (for a dependent child or adult) incurred as a result of attending an interview for this position.

For further information about the Department of Informatics at Kings, please see https://nms.kcl.ac.uk/luc.moreau/informatics/overview.pdf.

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ROSELAND, NJ, Sept. 28, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Sectigo, a global leader in digital certificates and automated Certificate Lifecycle Management (CLM), today announced its Chief Strategy Officer and CISO Advisor, David Mahdi, has been accepted to the Fast Company Executive Board, an invitation-only professional organization of leaders who share a commitment to shaping the future of business.

Mahdiwas selected to join the organization based on his expertise and proven track record in cybersecurity and digital trust spaces. Mahdi joined Sectigo to expand the companys leadership in the digital trust space and previously served as a VP analyst at Gartner. Mahdi advises clients and executives on topics ranging from cybersecurity, Identity Access Management (IAM), blockchain, PKI, IoT, and cloud and data security. With a career spanning 20 years, Mahdi has significant experience in areas such as hardware and software development, endpoint security, PKI, cryptography, blockchain, and digital identity (IAM).

In a remote and hybrid work world, establishing digital trust for the massive amounts of human and machine identities accessing systems and data is critical to conduct business securely. An identity-first security approach must be a top priority for enterprises and the world, especially as we embark on the journey to Web 3.0 and the metaverse. I am honored to join the Fast Company Executive Board to connect with and learn from fellow business leaders across all sectors and sharemy expertise on digital business strategies to Fast Company readers, Mahdi said.

As a member, Mahdi will get access to a dedicated online platform designed to foster connections and information sharing. Through lively discussions, virtual events, and online meetups, members will help each other solve business challenges and celebrate successes. Members also can publish relevant professional insights on FastCompany.com and participate in ExpertPanel discussions that are compiled into articles with the latest industry thinking from a diverse group of experts.Read Mahdis latest articlehere.

We are pleased to accept Mr. Mahdi into the Fast Company Executive Board. When leaders gather in curated, private settings, they can collaborate and create new business opportunities across a broad range of industries. Mr. Mahdi brings valuable professional insights and accomplishments to this group, said Scott Gerber, Founder of Fast Company Executive Board.

Founded in 2021, Fast Company Executive Board is a private, vetted professional organization that gives its members a unique, industry-leading peer group. Members are business leaders in the worlds of corporate leadership, design, media, entertainment, technology, social responsibility, marketing, advertising, social impact, and nonprofit who have been selected for their expertise and track record. Learn more athttps://board.fastcompany.com.

About Sectigo

Sectigo is a leading provider of digital certificates and automated Certificate Lifecycle Management (CLM) solutions - trusted by the worlds largest brands. Its cloud-based universal CLM platform issues and manages the lifecycles of digital certificates issued by Sectigo and other Certificate Authorities (CAs) to secure every human and machine identity across the enterprise. With over 20 years of experience establishing digital trust, Sectigo is one of the longest-standing and largest CAs with more than 700,000 customers, including 36% of the Fortune 1000. For more information, visitwww.sectigo.com.

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Learn to do Cryptography with Python and for free too. A course by computer scientist of ETH Zrich and cybersec expert Cyrill Gssi. He teaches the concepts of Cryptography with a practical approach.

And what better way of exploring the four classic concepts of Cryptography, that is confidentiality, integrity, authenticity and non-repudiation, than with Python.

Gssi developed this course with a few goals in mind. The first that by completing the course you would have gained a good understanding of cryptographyas a tool to realize the aims of information security. The second would be to furnish good knowledge about the existing fundamental cryptographic primitivesand an understanding of the security concerns associated with each of them. And, finally, the third goal would be to become able to apply that theoretical understanding of fundamental cryptographyby using the various cryptographic primitives in Python.

In concrete terms this would involve such things as symmetric, asymmetric, hybrid encryption and key exchanges or primitives such as the AES block cipher ,the RSA encryption scheme, and the Diffie-Hellman key exchanges EDH and ECDHE. All these relate toConfidentiality.

On the topic of Integrity, the cryptographic hash functions such as MD5, SHA-1, SHA-2 and SHA-3 are introduced.

As far as Authenticity is concerned, message authentication codes with HMACs, authenticated encryption with the Encrypt-then-MAC approach, and authenticated encryption with associated data with the GCM block cipher mode of operation, will be examined.

Finally on the Non-Repudiation front, we will have a close look at digital signatures based on RSA, DSA, Elliptic-Curve based DSA, Ed25519 and Ed448.

Theory and its practice in Python go hand in hand. Furthermore you will not just learn how to use the cryptographic primitives in Python, but you will additionally learn, how to implement most of these primitives in Python yourself.

The syllabus in detail:

1-Introduction and content of course2-Cryptography & its classic security goals3-Confidentiality as a security goal4-Symmetric encryption with AES and ECB/CBC5-Using insecure AES-ECB in Python6-Using secure AES-CBC in Python7-Implementing AES in Python #18-Implementing AES in Python #29-Implementing AES in Python #310-Implementing AES in Python #411-Implementing AES in Python #512-Implementing AES-ECB/CBC in Python #113-Implementing AES-ECB/CBC in Python #214-Asymmetric encryption with RSA15-Using RSA in Python16-Implementing RSA in Python #117-Implementing RSA in Python #218-Implementing RSA in Python #319-Hybrid encryption & key exchanges (EC)DHE20-Implementing hybrid RSA-AES encryption in Python21-Using EDH and ECDHE in Python22-Implementing a P-256 ECDHE in Python23-Integrity as a security goal24-Hash function structure and properties25-Hash function security26-Using MD5, SHA-1, SHA-2, SHA-3 in Python27-Implementing SHA-256 in Python #128-Implementing SHA-256 in Python #229-Authenticity as a security goal30-HMAC, Encrypt-then-MAC and GCM31-Using HMAC in Python32-Implementing HMAC in Python33-Implementing Encrypt-then-MAC in Python34-Using AES-GCM in Python35-Implementing AES-GCM in Python #136-Implementing AES-GCM in Python #237-Non-repudiation as a security goal38-Digital signatures39-Using RSA-PSS & Ed25519 signatures in Python40-Recap and summary

These 40 lessons of 2 up to 15mins in duration are provided as a Youtube playlist, while the accompanying Python code is up on its Github repo.

To sum it up, this is a great learning opportunity, combining two essential technologies, Cryptography and Python. Both very valuable for programming as well as careerwise forits students.

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The Web Crypto API is an interface allowing a script to use cryptographic primitives in order to build systems using cryptography.

Warning: The Web Crypto API provides a number of low-level cryptographic primitives. It's very easy to misuse them, and the pitfalls involved can be very subtle.

Even assuming you use the basic cryptographic functions correctly, secure key management and overall security system design are extremely hard to get right, and are generally the domain of specialist security experts.

Errors in security system design and implementation can make the security of the system completely ineffective.

Please learn and experiment, but don't guarantee or imply the security of your work before an individual knowledgeable in this subject matter thoroughly reviews it. The Crypto 101 Course can be a great place to start learning about the design and implementation of secure systems.

Some browsers implemented an interface called Crypto without having it well defined or being cryptographically sound. In order to avoid confusion, methods and properties of this interface have been removed from browsers implementing the Web Crypto API, and all Web Crypto API methods are available on a new interface: SubtleCrypto. The Crypto.subtle property gives access to an object implementing it.

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Every department in every organization from governments and banks to small businesses faces the same challenge: to secure their sensitive data.

Cryptomathic has appointed Laurent Lafargue as Chief Executive Officer as the cryptographic security solutions pioneer continues its high-growth trajectory across Europe and the United States.

The firm was founded in 1986 and specializes in four sectors: e-signatures, cryptographic key management, EMV payments and mobile security.

One of the first companies to commercialise cryptographic algorithms, Cryptomathic has built a strong portfolio of cybersecurity solutions over the past 35 years, having onboarded global household names in banking and technology.

Cryptomathic holds over 30 patents and has been named one of the worlds 40 most innovative companies by the World Economic Forum.

Bringing more than 20 years of managerial and executive experience to the chief executive role at Cryptomathic, Laurent Lafargue joins the firm after yearsat leading firms in semiconductors, smart cards, RFID, and electronics, including Infineon and Linxens.

Laurent Lafargue, Chief Executive Officer at Cryptomathic, commented:As the world races to go digital, the demand for cryptographic security solutions is exploding. Every department in every organization from governments and banks to small businesses faces the same challenge: to secure their sensitive data. Cryptography has emerged as the de-facto security model to meet this challenge wherever it presents itself, from protecting data in the cloud and on mobile devices, to safeguarding transactions and enabling the secure e-signing of legally binding documents.

Cryptomathic has operated at the bleeding edge of this field for over 35 years. Its solutions are trusted by governments, cloud service providers, and industry leaders in a host of sectors around the world, from financial services to automotive and aviation. It is a great privilege to lead the Cryptomathic team. Im hugely excited to play my part in driving the companys growth as it continues to shape the future of this industry.

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