Archive for January, 2010

The Solitaire Cypher - encrypting with cards

Every spook needs a way to encrypt messages without carrying anything incriminating on his person. What more innocent than a pack of cards?
Long-haired and bearded Bruce Schneier is a cryptographer and computer security expert. He invented the Solitaire system referred to as Pontifex in the novel Cryptonomicon.
The system uses a standard deck of playing cards […]