Interesting Snippets from 2012-05-02

• Digital archiving: Where source code goes to die | The Economist

  John Carmack, the legendary programmer behind “Wolfenstein 3D”, “Doom” and “Quake”, also releases the source code to his old games under a free software licence. In normal circumstances, the code would have been kept locked up under copyright laws for several decades after its creator's death. “It is a little disturbing to think that we would transition directly from professional secrecy to obscurity,” Mr Carmack says.

• Protect your data at the speed of light with gKrypt, Part 2

  This is the second article in a two-part series on AES encryption and the gKrypt engine. Part 1 introduced gKrypt and explained the AES algorithm in detail, its parallel breakdown and how to map it on a massive GPU architecture using the Compute Unified Device Architecture (CUDA). Part 2 looks at how AES is implemented on CUDA.

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