Suspicious Deaths
Unfortunate and early deaths of people involved with cryptology:
- Edgar Allan Poe: usually credited with being one of the first writers to mention and use cryptography in a story. He died in a gutter (7 October 1849). After being unexpectedly absent for several days.
- Alan Turing: the attention to his personal life following WW2 led to a revoking of clearance and depression. Ate a poisoned apple, taking his own life, in 1954 (7 June).
- Michael Ventris: English architect whose fascination with Linear B led to the eventual translation of the language. Went public with his knowledge (work done with John Chadwick whose background was in archaic Greek) in 1953. Publication was slated for 1956. Ventris died in a lorry accident a few weeks before publication (6 September).
James Ellis -- Britian's secret guru who spearheaded GCHQ's version of the RSA public/private key techonlogy -- in a docuement from 1987: "...the fullest value of cryptography is realised by minimising the information available to potential adversaries...Revelation of these secrets is normally only sanctioned in the interests of historical accuracy after it has been demonstrated that no further benefit can be obtained from continued secrecy." (Simon Singh, The Code Book, 1999, p. 292)
If one were to be looking for conspiracies...
writing
This is a reasonably comprehensive list of my published work, both virtual and physical.
THE MISFIT LIBRARY
I am Nine of Thirteen, one of the members of the Misfit Library, a writing collective which puts out a quarterly journal of our respective work. We are scattered across the globe and determined to change the face of the planet one story at a time. The link above will take you to Misfit Central where you can acquire copies of the journal as well as read exclusive online material.
SYMBOLIC
I wrote a column for OPi8.com's Transmit blogs: journals of the new dark underground. SYMBOLIC tracked the novel I was working on, referencing the process and the research materials which mad up the backbone of the work. In addition, SYMBOLIC busied itself with ruminations and considerations on the nature of language and communication. And a wee bit of mythology. The first 100 entries of SYMBOLIC can be found here on this site as well as at OPi8.com.
LITERARY REPRESENTATION
I am represented by Scribe Agency as my literary agents. Please contact these gentleman if you have any queries about my work.