Unwitting cryptography

Well, that’s almost the title of Herb Sutter’s talk, called “Machine Architecture: Things Your Programming Language Never Told You”, slides and google talk available:

• google video
• meeting page (find slides here)

If you do nothing else, go to 1:53:30 in the video (about 3 minutes before the end) and listen to the pledge. It’s cute. It’s backed up by the rest of the talk.