Assorted Links (CompSec) | David Cerezo Sánchez

1. Turing award goes to Goldwasser&Micali: zero-knowledge, semantic security and universal forgery under chosen message attack.
2. The DDoS That Almost Broke the Internet: attacking whole Internet eXchanges just to bring down SpamHaus.
3. Cyber-security: The digital arms trade: price quotes for exploits, The Economist’s style.
4. NSA Cryptologs: was this really classified? Many opinions and little-to-none noteworthy facts.
5. RC4 as used in TLS/SSL is broken: see page 306. More here.