How a 27-Year-Old Codebreaker Busted the Myth of Bitcoin’s Anonymity
When Meiklejohn started college at Brown in 2004, she discovered cryptography. This branch of computer science appealed directly to her puzzle addiction—what was an encryption system, after all, but another secret language demanding to be deciphered? There was a maxim in cryptography, often referred to as Schneier’s law after the cryptographer Bruce Schneier. It asserted … Read more