I wanted to post this last weekend – but it only became available this morning! A Platinum Jubilee Fact.

retro tech

The BBC Inside Science, radio show, went to their archives to look at science and technology over the last 70 years. BBC Inside Science – A Reign of Science – BBC Sounds I was also born in 1961, and it is interesting to listen to the bit about “…back then, …

Encryption and how we got to an internet where you can securely buy things online. A Platinum Jubilee Fact.

Ralph C. Merkle was born on February 2, 1952. He was one of the inventors of public key cryptography – a security methodology that today’s internet and communications rely on heavily. The discovery and publishing dates for public key cryptography gets a bit confusing – I am sure a white …