The shocking behaviour of moving fluids

Originating authors are David Mumford and Christiane Rousseau. Foreword: This vignette is more difficult than others. However, in a few pages, it tells you how to explain in simple terms one of the most difficult open problems at the beginning…

Public-key cryptography

Originating authors are Graeme L. Cohen (University of Technology, Sydney), Steven Galbraith (University of Auckland) and Edoardo Persichetti (University of Auckland). How can we safely send our credit card details over the internet, or using a mobile phone, when others…

SXEOLF NHB FUBSWRJUDSKB (PUBLIC KEY CRYPTOGRAPHY)

The need to create secure codes is said to go back to Julius Caesar, who moved letters in his messages up by three through the alphabet. That is encoding. How would you decode such a message? Modern day cryptography, which…