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This document is intended to be a primer on how to get IPsec on FreeBSD up and running, interoperating both with another FreeBSD (or NetBSD or any other KAME-derived stack) machine, and a Windows 2000 machine. IPsec is a means . . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jan 04, 2001

NSA coughs up secret TEMPEST specs

The first of several documents related to the US government's TEMPEST programme, obtained by Cryptome.org's John Young under a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request, have been posted on his Web site. His original request was denied, but the persistent Young . . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jan 02, 2001

Crypto-Politics: Decoding the New Encryption Standard

An interview with Sun Labs' Whit Diffie and Susan Landau on the subject of the new AES encryption standard. Whit is one of the industry's "encryption gurus" and recently received the Marconi award (with Martin Hellman) for developing Public Key encryption. . . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jan 02, 2001

Can DVD Be Protected?

In the wake of DeCSS, the decryption technology for DVD, the Digital Versatile Disc industry has been searching for well over a year for new ways to thwart DVD piracy. But in much the same way the industry stepped on its . . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jan 01, 2001

New version of SendIP

New version of SendIP (1.4) available with bugfixes, a contrib dir and a default RIP option... SendIP is a command-line tool to send arbitrary IP packets. It has a large number of options to specify the content of every header of . . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Dec 25, 2000

dsniff and SSH

The following essay clarifies the facts in the "End of SSL and SSH" article written by Kurt Seifried a few days ago. "On 17 December 2000, Dug Song released a new version of his well-known package of network sniffing tools, dsniff. . . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Dec 24, 2000

Laptop encryption and international travel

The restrictions on using PC encryption products are far more lenient than those on importing software or hardware encryption for distribution or resale. In France, for example, the law states that upon entry to the country, travelers must register their decryption . . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Dec 21, 2000

Net Security, Flawed

SSL and SSH have emerged, with other protocols, to provide authentication methods using a public key infrastructure. These protocols were developed to protect large amounts of network traffic from online shopping to financial transactions with online banks. . . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Dec 20, 2000

Microsoft, others create XML-based encryption scheme

Microsoft, VeriSign and webMethods Wednesday introduced a specification that works to simplify the integration of Public Key Infrastructure and digital certificates with XML applications. The companies have released the spec, dubbed XML Key Management Specification (XKMS), and will submit it to . . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Dec 18, 2000

The End of SSL and SSH?

Yesterday, dsniff 2.3 was released. Why is this important, you ask? dsniff 2.3 allows you to exploit several fundamental flaws in two extremely popular encryption protocols, SSL and SSH. SSL and SSH are used to protect a large amount . . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Dec 18, 2000

DeCSS case runs into Calif. roadblock

Hollywood loses a ruling in its fight to outlaw DeCSS, an open-source Linux computer code that allows copying of protected DVD disks. The motion picture industry's effort to ban computer code that subverts its DVD encryption scheme has suffered a setback . . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Dec 17, 2000

Open Source encryption components and exporting applications

I received a phone call today from a lady with the U.S. Bureau of Export Administration (BXA) who'd read my AEScrypt page (the URL of which I'd submitted to them for an export license exemption as required by U.S. . . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Dec 15, 2000

A message carved in spam

I have to admit that the excitement and fury over encryption leaves me baffled. It's not that I can't grasp the issues and long-term global implications, or that I fail to marvel at the technical complexities involved, but as far . . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Dec 13, 2000

Record company prepares to sell copy-protected CDs

Country music record company Fahrenheit Entertainment said it will begin selling copy-protected CDs by early next year using encryption technology from SunnComm, a little-known company based in Phoenix. If successfully employed, SunnComm's technology could become the first to hamper the copying . . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Dec 11, 2000

Encryption experts set to bust RIP rules

The Regulation of Investigatory Powers (RIP) Act could be so much waste paper if a groundbreaking UK encryption project succeeds. Mathematician Peter Fairbrother has launched a project called M-o-o-t, which would make it physically impossible to surrender encryption keys - . . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Dec 07, 2000

Mightier Than the Pen

Digital signatures are coming, promising the rebirth of the Internet gold rush and the death of paper. Either that or a security nightmare. Earlier this year, President Clinton took the first step toward ending Hancock's long association with autographs by signing . . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Dec 06, 2000

My security algorithm is faster than yours

IBM claims to have invented a new encryption algorithm which can encrypt and authenticate data in one step. The algorithm takes advantage of parallel processing hardware, to cut in half the time taken to encrypt data. However, the news has failed . . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Dec 03, 2000

IBM claims faster encryption technology

IBM Corp. announced Thursday a secure method for digitally scrambling and signing data that it claims will take half the time of today's fastest techniques. IBM billed the combination encryption-authentication technique as especially suitable to secure mobile communications because of . . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Dec 02, 2000

Encryption, Free Speech and Government Regulation

Encryption software has sparked regulation by the U.S. government and at least two important lawsuits involving the First Amendment. Exporting encryption products requires a thorough understanding of what's legal and what's not. This article explains the issues. . . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Nov 22, 2000

Will the Future Be Anonymous?

The work of David Chaum and Stefan Brands on protocols, such as blind signatures, that provide anonymity has attracted a great deal of interest among people interested in cryptography. In the RSA algorithm, given a public key consisting of an encryption . . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Nov 17, 2000

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