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If you want to keep private your personal files, such as those containing phone numbers, correspondence or journals, you could keep them in a hidden directory named ~/.private with mode 0700, so only you could read the files. Are you chuckling . . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Oct 16, 2002

OpenSSH 3.5 Released

OpenSSH 3.5 has just been released. It will be available from the mirrors listed at 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. We would like to thank the OpenSSH community for their continued support and encouragement.. . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Oct 15, 2002

Former FBI chief takes on encryption

"Robust and commercially available encryption products are proliferating, and no legal means has been provided to law enforcement to deal with this problem, as was recently done by Parliament in the United Kingdom," Freeh said in his testimony. "Terrorists, drug traffickers and criminals have been able to exploit this huge vulnerability in our public safety matrix.". . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Oct 15, 2002

FreeS/WAN Weekly Summary: IPsec on the Zaurus and more

This issue, we have reports of FreeS/WAN running on the Sharp Zaurus (item 1) and having a few small issues with RedHat 8.0 (item 2). Claudia Schmeing has posted a new revision of our interoperation document (item 3). Item 4 has a great discussion on the use of routing protocols with FreeS/WAN.. . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Oct 10, 2002

New threat forces cryptography rethink

Hackers start using 'side-channel' attacks Side-channel attacks are the next big threat from hackers, according to the head of RSA Labs. Normal attacks on code are conducted by looking at the unencrypted message and the encrypted message and attempt to . . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Oct 10, 2002

Intel To Put Security On A Chip

In his keynote address at the Fall 2002 Intel Developer Forum, Otellini said that beginning in 2003, Intel processors would feature new technology that would better safeguard data from hackers and viruses. . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Oct 09, 2002

W3C Proposes XML Encryption Methods

The Web's leading standards group proposed two recommendations for encrypting XML data and documents, a key development in the organization's push to standardize technologies crucial to Web services. . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Oct 07, 2002

Plastic Tag Makes Foolproof ID

Shine a flashlight through a shattered window and you'll project a unique pattern onto any surface beyond the window. Move the flashlight to a new angle and you'll get another unique pattern, but one that looks more like the first than . . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Oct 04, 2002

Scientists Find Key To Water-Tight Encryption

UK researchers have managed to send untamperable encryption keys over long distances, opening the way for totally secure communications. A team of scientists said on Wednesday they had made a major leap toward developing secure global communications. . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Oct 03, 2002

Can Software Security Be Certified?

These are busy days at InfoGard Labs. The San Luis Obispo (Calif.) outfit is one of only six info-tech laboratories in the U.S. and Canada allowed to issue a government seal of approval known as FIPS compliance. FIPS stands for Federal . . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Oct 02, 2002

Who’s listening in on your messages?

Too many organizations have critical data sitting on unsecured enterprise networks. Shrinking budgets and persistent calls to streamline internal operations are creating a glut of exposed enterprise networks. At the same time, more business executives are becoming IT security conscious, . . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Oct 01, 2002

RC5-64 Secret-Key Challenge Solved

RSA Laboratories, the research center of RSA Security Inc. (Nasdaq: RSAS), the most trusted name in e-security®, today announced that a coordinated team of computer programmers and enthusiasts, known as distributed.net, has solved the RC5-64 Secret-Key Challenge. The distributed.net team solved the challenge in approximately four years, using 331,252 volunteers and their machines. Distributed.net receives a cash prize of $10,000 for solving the challenge.. . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Sep 26, 2002

An Introduction to GNU Privacy Guard (Part 1)

DesktopLinux.com guest author David Scribner has penned an article introducing new users to GnuPG on GNU/Linux (and UNIX) systems. Scribner focuses on how this powerful encryption package can play a vital role in personal and business communications by increasing security. This very detailed article will be available in two parts this week on DesktopLinux.com.. . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Sep 23, 2002

Crypto-Chip Boosts ID Security

When you send your credit card number over the Internet to pay for a new book or a pair of pants, the number is mathematically disguised -- encrypted -- so that the original string of digits can be decoded only by . . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Sep 20, 2002

Open-Source Group Gets Sun Security Gift

Sun's "elliptic curve" technology is involved in the process of using keys to encrypt and decrypt information for electronic transactions. Such encryption lets people buy products online, for example, while shielding their credit card number from prying eyes. The Santa Clara, . . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Sep 20, 2002

Scary Tales from the Cryptologist

In 1995, Paul Kocher caught the attention of information-security experts when he unveiled a method for cracking a handful of commonly used computer codes by timing how long it took for computers to process requests using those code algorithims. Today, Kocher . . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Sep 19, 2002

A Gathering of Big Crypto Brains

In a lush country hotel 20 miles south of Dublin, the barroom conversation turns to steganography and database vulnerabilities, encryption algorithms and biometric scanners, SWAP files and cookie poisoning. Not your average pub denizens, the speakers are some of the . . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Sep 19, 2002

Security Data S.L. Announces the Availability of the HiFn7951 Linux Driver

Francisco Perez lets us know of support for the HiFn crypto board. "The driver provides crypto acceleration for FreeSwan IPSEC application and others. Security Data is an I.T Security services & OEM producer of Security Equipment based on Linux OS.. . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Sep 17, 2002

New AES crypto standard broken already

Theoretical attacks against AES (Advanced Encryption Standard) winner Rijndael and runner-up Serpent have been published. They might work in the practical world; they might not. That's about all we can say from the latest edition of Bruce Schneier's CryptoGram newsletter, which . . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Sep 17, 2002

The IP Security Protocol, Part 2

Encapsulating security payloads, key exchange mechanisms and other components of establishing secure data transfers. In Part 2, we move on to encapsulating security payloads and key exchange mechanisms. IPSec ESP format, specified in RFC 2406, provides confidentiality, authenticity and integrity.. . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Sep 09, 2002

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