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'Nothing's Going to Last Forever': An Oral History of the LØpht (Part Four- Fisher paper)

2018/03/09 : Dennis Fisher gives us an Oral History of the LØpht in four parts. This is the fourth part, talking about the end of LØpht.

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Steven Levy - Hackers Heroes of the Computer Revolution - 2010

May 2010 : Steven Levy writes this famous book upon the evolution of thoughts and actions within the hacker community since their start.Read more

Kerckhoffs - La cryptographie militaire (Part One)

1883/01 : Auguste Kerckhoffs writes the first part of « La cryptographie militaire » in Journal des sciences militaires (vol. IX, pp. 5–38).

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‘Microsoft Was Freaking Out‘: An Oral History of the LØpht -Part Two - Fisher Paper)

2018/03/07 : Dennis Fisher gives us an Oral History of the LØpht in four parts. This is the second part, when L0pht began to be known. 

Click here to read Part One, Part Three and...Read more

Lawyers, Bugs, and Money: When Bug Bounties Went Boom (Part One - Fisher paper)

2021/08/30 : Dennis Fisher writes a three-part series upon the evolution of bug bounties since they get birth. Here is the first part, talking about "the hackers who turned a niche idea into a worldwide ...Read more

Why I Wrote PGP

10 years after its release, Philip Zimmermann remembered why he wrote PGP and published it on the Internet as a free and open source software program in June 1991.Read more

Uprising in the Valley: When Bug Bounties Went Boom (Part Two - Fisher paper)

2021/08/31 : Dennis Fisher writes a three-part series upon the evolution of bug bounties since they get birth.

Here is the second part, talking about the growth of "independent...Read more

An example with PGP on cryptologie.net

N.B. I'm aware that the author's goal was very different from mine. The criticisms I will mention are more addressed to myself than to his work.

This history is an interesting one...Read more

Thirty Minutes Or Less: An Oral History of the LØpht, Part Three

2018/03/08 : Dennis Fisher gives us an Oral History of the LØpht in four parts. This is the third part, when "[p]ieces in The Washington Post, Wired, and many other outlets raised the group's profile and brought its work to the attention of people far outside the hacker...Read more

A history of end-to-end encryption and the death of PGP - January 2020 (cryptologie.net blog post)

01/2020: Here's a documented though critical history of PGP, with insightful links. Providing several consensual (or at least presented so) arguments and documents, the author argues that PGP is dead. However, the article ommits to mention that 2019 witnessed the emergence or fostering of...Read more

Kerckhoffs - La cryptographie militaire (Part Two)

1883/02 : Auguste Kerckhoffs writes the first part of « La cryptographie militaire » in Journal des sciences militaires (vol. IX, pp. 161–191).Read more

'Drive It Like You Stole It': When Bug Bounties Went Boom (Part Three - Fisher paper)

2021/09/01 : Dennis Fisher writes a three-part series upon the evolution of bug bounties since they get birth.

Here is the third part, talking about how "during Barack...Read more

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