NanoCops

16/12/2014

Our work on quantum secure authentication is out!

Though corporations and individuals work to improve safeguards, it has become increasingly difficult to protect financial data and personal information from criminal activity. Fortunately, new insights into quantum physics may soon offer a solution.

05/12/2014

Nos félicitations!

De Nederlandse natuurkundige Willem Vos en zijn Franse collega Ludwik Leibler ontvangen op 26 januari de Descartes-Huygensprijs in Amsterdam.

21/05/2014

Open source wavefront shaping!

In a next step to bring wavefront shaping to the world, we're making our software open source.

http://cops.nano-cops.com/news/cops-open-source-software-available

You can download our software from SourceForge (and contribute your own extensions if you like). An open access preprint on Arxiv describes the internal workings.

We're planning to make all new software developed under NWO and EU contracts open source. What's your opinion?

COPS software for controlling the phase and amplitude of light using a binary amplitude device is now available. It combines binary ("on/off") pixels into small groups, called superpixels, which have full control over the light field. Curious about our software?

21/05/2014

A bit older blog but amazingly nothing substantial has been done to improve security since then.
http://www.lightbluetouchpaper.org/2010/02/11/chip-and-pin-is-broken/

Chip and PIN is broken2010-02-11Academic papers, Banking security, Legal issues, News coverage, PoliticsRoss AndersonThere should be a 9-minute film on Newsnight tonight (10:30pm, BBC Two) showing some research by Steven Murdoch, Saar Drimer, Mike Bond and me. We demonstrate a middleperson attack on…

21/05/2014

De chip op de huidige pinpas, de zogenoemde EMV-chip, blijkt door een lek te kopiëren. De chip is juist ingevoerd om skimem tegen te gaan.

21/05/2014

The EMV chip has been hacked...

http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/research/security/banking/tamper/

We demonstrate how fraudsters could collect card details and PINs, despite the victims taking all due care to protect their information. This means that customers should not automatically be considered liable for fraud, simply because the PIN was used. Even though a customer's PIN might have been co…

06/10/2013

Group "steppen" tour - Meet the COPS on the road

14/12/2012

Unbelievable, COPS is in the Top Ten Breakthroughs of the Year! Look up the original list on the Physics World website.

http://physicsworld.com/cws/article/news/2012/dec/14/physics-world-reveals-its-top-10-breakthroughs-for-2012

ATLAS and CMS take top gong for Higgs-like discovery

17/11/2012

Cool: our "Molecules in love" on the cover of PRL.
http://prl.aps.org/covers/109/20
http://m.phys.org/news/2012-11-energy-debate-impact-areas-photovoltaics.html

Fluorescent dyes spaced by short DNA strands probe Förster energy transfer in a controlled nanophotonic environment defined by a mirror. [Christian Blum, Niels Zijlstra, Ad Lagendijk, Martijn Wubs, Allard P. Mosk, Vinod Subramaniam, and Willem L. Vos, Phys. Rev. Lett.109, 203601 (2012)]

24/09/2012

18/07/2012

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