Re: Bing Tries To Buy The News on TechCrunch

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 10:20:46 +0000

In order to actually make a dent in Google’s market share, Bing would have to pay such exorbitant sums to so many different news companies that it would be difficult to recoup its investment. Bing certainly get some marketing buzz out of any such move, but that’s about it.

Here’s a list of links about this:

Microsoft and News Corp eye web pact on FT
Thoughts On A “Killer” Bing-News Corp Deal & The Myth Of An “OPEC For News” on search engine land
Microsoft Offers To Pay News Corp To “De-List” Itself From Google on The Business Insider
Will News Corp move its content to Microsoft’s Bing? on The Guardian

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How to share a secret

Sat, 03 Jan 2009 17:15:38 +0000

“How to Share a Secret” is the title of paper written in 1979 by Adi Shamir (best known for his work on the RSA algorithm). The paper describes a method for dividing information in smaller pieces so that the knowledge of all but one of the pieces gives absolutely no information about the original information. Quoting the author:

This technique enables the construction of robust key management schemes for cryptographic systems that can function securely and reliably even when misfortunes destroy half the pieces and security breaches expose all but one of the remaining pieces.

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