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E-Commerce Solutions: Template-Driven Pages, Part 2

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This article talks about "template-driven pages, this time using Perl and Python to deliver those SSI templates straight into CGI documents. In the last article we examined the different ways in which we could introduce pages purely using the SSI (Server . . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Sep 13, 2000

RSA Security's Crypto Patent Expiration May Spur More Competitive PKI Tools

RSA's competitors' reactions to the expiration are mixed. Baltimore Technologies Inc. responded with its own announcement of new products and initiatives. It's eliminating its runtime licensing for its PKI development suite KeyTools and will switch to a flat fee, and it's also offering a free KeyTools Lite, which includes cryptographic and digital certificate functions, including communication with a certificate authority or a Lightweight Directory Access Protocol directory. . . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Sep 08, 2000

RSA Algorithm Released: Update

The release of the algorithm is a good thing because you can now create cryptographic software using one RSA implementation and distribute it worldwide without having to license anything from RSA. ... This is good news because you can, for example, . . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Sep 08, 2000

GPG vs. PGP?

What are the relative merits and drawbacks of using Gnu Privacy Guard vs. Network Associates' PGP. I am not referring to the fact that GPG doesn't use any restricted implemtations or algorithems; or that GPG was not affected by the recent . . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Sep 07, 2000

RSA releases proprietary security algorithm

... Despite RSA's gesture, several competitors who have paid royalties for use of the algorithm for up to 17 years, argue that the industry could have done with the patent relaxation earlier. "Of course its fantastic news, but after 17 years to suddenly release it two weeks early is a bit of a stunt," says Paddy Holahan, vice president of marketing at Baltimore Technology. "It has held back e-commerce.". . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Sep 06, 2000

Welcome to the RSA Freedom Clock page!

Interested in knowing up to the second increments on the status of the impending RSA patent expiration? This site also provides a view on what the author thinks of software patents to begin with... "The patent office has shown remarkable incompetence . . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Sep 05, 2000

Zimmermann responds to PGP flap

Phil Zimmermann, the creator of Pretty Good Privacy (PGP), responds to the recent flaw discovered in Network Associates implementation of the Additional Decryption Key (ADK) feature. This is a key escrow account that allows a responsible third-party to gain access to . . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Sep 05, 2000

Ain't no network strong enough

Master cryptographer Bruce Schneier's "Secrets and Lies" explains why computer security is an oxymoron. Bruce Schneier, master cryptographer and idol of the computer underground, targets those short-attention-spanners in his latest book, "Secrets and Lies: Digital Security in a Networked World." Aiming . . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Aug 31, 2000

The Emotional Side of Cryptography

Encrypting data before storage or transmission involves a bit of extra work. This often means that people who ought to be using encryption, instead of relying on the assumption that their data will not be intercepted, fail to do so. But it is also true that some of the people who use encryption are keenly aware of the importance of keeping their information secret.. . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Aug 31, 2000

Encryption Could Starve Carnivore

Even as the FBI slowly releases details of its Carnivore e-mail wiretap technology, software developers are readying schemes to starve Carnivore of meaningful data.. . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Aug 28, 2000

Pretty Good Privacy flaw reported

A GERMAN RESEARCHER has discovered a major security flaw in the latest versions of the PGP free e-mail encryption software that could allow someone to read another person's encrypted e-mail if he or she was able to intercept it. . . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Aug 25, 2000

Yahoo to offer encrypted email option

Yahoo plans to let its email account holders use data encryption to protect the privacy of their messages, marking a potentially significant advance for the mainstream use of encryption. . . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Aug 25, 2000

PGP Vulnerability

A very serious PGP vulnerability was just discovered. Using this vulnerability, an attacker can create a modified version of someone's public key that will force a sender to encrypt messages to that person AND to the attacker.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Aug 24, 2000

Will You be Having a Party When the RSA Patent Expires?

"In late September, 2000, the RSA Patent expires. Rivest, Shamir, and Adelman, Public Key Cryptography's most famous supergroup, developed this algorithm about 20 years ago. If you are planning a party, tell us. We're going to make a list, and . . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Aug 24, 2000

Installing Command Line PGP

The following is a description of how I got a Linux version of the PGP encryption program, how I installed it, and a few observations about quirks in the program. The Linux version of PGP that I got is PGPcmdfw_6.5.2_Linux.i386.rpm and . . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Aug 23, 2000

New book by Bruce Schneier

Bruce Schneier, computer security expert, CTO and founder of Counterpane Internet Security, Inc., has written a new book specifically for corporate managers. Secrets and Lies: Digital Security in a Networked World is a practical, straightforward guide to understanding and achieving security . . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Aug 23, 2000

SSH-Agent 1.2.27 Tutorial

Security is best when it is handy. ssh-agent is pretty darn handy. Ssh-agent can authenticate you to a remote machine via keypairs, rather than the traditional hand-typed username/password combination, with no loss of security.. . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Aug 21, 2000

Encryption Gets Really Small

Scientists at the University of Geneva are collaborating with the Swiss Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications on an experiment that uses quantum computers to run an unbreakable encryption algorithm. Cryptography could, in fact, be the first commercial application for this technology. . . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Aug 18, 2000

RSA Security Offers Industry's First "e-Security Experience" to Help Educate Customers on the Benefi

BEDFORD, Mass., August 17, 2000 - To further position itself as the leader in the e-security space, RSA Security Inc (NASDAQ: RSAS), the most trusted name in e-security, today announced the launch of its inaugural "e-Security Experience," a Webinar designed to . . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Aug 17, 2000

Why Are Keys Certified?

Key certificates are an important element in the use of public-key cryptography (PKC). Your browser, when it visits a secure site, checks for a key certificate from a small number of commercial certificate providers. The instructions that came with PGP described . . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Aug 08, 2000

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