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US civil rights organisation prepares for new 'crypto war'

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The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) reports that it has filed lawsuits against three agencies of the US Department of Justice demanding the release of documents justifying the need for stronger internet surveillance measures.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Nov 01, 2010

How public-key crypto was born

Public-key cryptography is widely used to secure online transactions. The math behind the technology was devised by U.K. Government Communications Headquarters scientists in the late 1960s and early 1970s.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Oct 27, 2010

GCHQ pioneers on birth of public key crypto

Public key cryptography is widely used to secure online transactions. The maths behind the technology was invented by UK Government Communications Headquarters scientists in the late 1960s and early 1970s.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Oct 26, 2010

Crypto challenges for puzzle fans

On the new MysteryTwister C3 web site, crypto fans can practice cracking various encryption mechanisms. Jointly created by the German universities of Siegen, Bochum and Duisburg-Essen, the site currently offers 27 challenges organised into four levels of difficulty.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Oct 18, 2010

Breakthrough Encryption Solution Selected for Debut at Hacker Halted Conference

At the 2010 Hacker Halted Conference in Miami on October 13, 2010, SECNAP Network Security will demonstrate the ease with which cyber sniffers, eavesdroppers and hackers can intercept email messages, despite widespread user trust that email messages are private and secure.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Oct 14, 2010

PCI encryption: PCI Council calls point-to-point encryption immature

The PCI Security Standards Council (PCI SSC) issued its first guidance document outlining the point-to-point encryption market, warning merchants of the possibility of vendor lock-in and calling current implementations too immature to properly evaluate.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Oct 13, 2010

Waging crypto wars 2.0

I was drawn to security in the early 90s during the crypto battle against the U.S. government, which was trying to force companies to adopt broken encryption with built in backdoors, like the failed Clipper Chip. Fortunately, the crypto wars were won by the side of reason, not least because of activists hoarding crypto technology in offshore locations.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Oct 07, 2010

4 Open and Free Disk and NAS Encryption Projects

As usual, the Free/Open Source software world provides the best security utilities for Windows, and for Linux and Mac as well. Eric Geier rounds up four encryption utilities for both local and network storage.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Oct 05, 2010

What's up with encryption?

Encryption is hot. Perhaps that's because its been around so long it's no longer seen as a black art. Or perhaps security issues have grown so prevalent, everyone wants some sort of encryption as a truly secure way of stopping the pain of those problems.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Sep 29, 2010

The enigma of a code-breaker's death

On Friday, in the Bethel Methodist Chapel in Angelsey, the funeral was held of Gareth Williams. In life, he was a mathematician and an encryption specialist so highly regarded that he was seconded from GCHQ in Cheltenham to work at MI6 in London.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Sep 26, 2010

Implementing two Factor Authentication on the Cheap

Typically, implementing two factor authentication means buying tokens or smart cards for all of your users. This can be expensive (from what I have seen $50/user is typical in smaller deployments) and it is only manageable for users with whom you have an existing relationship (employees, in some cases customers).

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Sep 21, 2010

Crypto weakness leaves online banking apps open to attack

Flaws in the way web applications handle encrypted session cookies might leave online banking accounts open to attack. The security risk stems from a cryptographic weakness in web applications developed using Microsoft's ASP.Net framework.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Sep 14, 2010

Quantum Cryptography Breached With Lasers

Norwegian computer scientists have perfected a laser-based attack against quantum cryptography systems that allows them to eavesdrop on communications without revealing their presence.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Sep 08, 2010

Hardware Hack Busts Quantum Encryption

Quantum cryptography is absolutely unbreakable, as it relies on the laws of physics to rat out eavesdroppers. But like other encryption methods, it is sometimes only as good as the users and their hardware.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Aug 31, 2010

Four Best Practices For Tokenization

With Visa releasing its tokenization best practices guide earlier this summer, security professionals and encryption vendors have debated the strengths and weaknesses of the guide. As one of the most debated topics in encryption-land, tokenization still has a long way to go before it achieves any kind of true standardization of best practices.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Aug 30, 2010

OpenSSH v5.6 Released

OpenSSH 5.6 has just been released. It will be available from the mirrors listed at http://http://www.openssh.com// shortly. OpenSSH is a 100% complete SSH protocol version 1.3, 1.5 and 2.0 implementation and includes sftp client and server support.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Aug 23, 2010

How to Render SSL Useless

In this video from the OWASP AppSec Research conference in Sweden, security researcher Ivan Ristic of Qualys discusses practical methods for breaking SSL.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Aug 18, 2010

Linux Full Disk Encryption

Linux Full Disk Encryption (LFDE) is a tool designed to provide Linux with a means to do true full disk encryption (FDE).

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Aug 17, 2010

E-Commerce Security Is Broken, Vulnerable, Says Hacker Conference Founder

Lots of code excitement will spring from the Black Hat hacker conference this week, but already a huge controversy is erupting: Black Hat's founder thinks SSL--the security code making much of online commerce safe--is broken.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jul 29, 2010

Reliable Encryption for the Rest of Us

Though encryption is a strong way to safeguard passwords, personal information, and other sensitive data, it can be confusing due to the acronyms and technobabble that surround the topic. Many encryption utilities--such as the BitLocker feature in Windows 7 Ultimate, or the Rohos Mini Drive utility for protecting info on a thumb drive--are available.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jul 26, 2010

Linux Cryptography - Page 18

How Passkey Solutions Enhance Open-Source Security

Abyss Locker Ransomware Targets Linux & Windows Users

Linux Foundation Joins Post-Quantum Cryptography Alliance