Zodiac Pattern Drawer

UPDATE, Feb 7, 2016: The Zodiac Pattern Drawer site at sbabaker.com went down, so I attempted to mirror the tool here: http://zodiackillerciphers.com/zodiac-pattern-drawer/ Computer science professor Ryan Garlick at the University of North Texas has been enlisting his students to try…

Speaking at the 2015 Cryptologic History Symposium

The Cryptologic History Symposium sponsored by the NSA’s Center for Cryptologic History is coming up this fall, and they have accepted a paper proposal I recently submitted. The symposium will be on October 22nd and 23rd this year in Laurel,…

Did a chess grandmaster solve the 340?

The World Chess Federation in Las Vegas, NV is involved in a dispute over trademark infringement. The web site for the World Chess Federation has a profile of its founder Stan Vaughan which includes this claim: Grand Master Stan’s expertise…