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The IP Security Protocol, Part 1

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Explaining IPSec, different levels of security and how to be safe sending and receiving packets over the network. .. VPNs (virtual private networks, i.e., private networks deployed over a public packet infrastructure) are definitely emerging as the solution of choice for the interconnection of distant offices belonging to the same company.. . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Sep 09, 2002

Encrypted e-mails may be digital bullets

For more than a decade, the United States government classified encryption technology as a weapon. Now that label might actually apply. Security-consulting firm Foundstone said Thursday that e-mail messages encrypted with the Pretty Good Privacy program can be used as digital bullets to attack and take control of a victim's computer.. . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Sep 06, 2002

A New AES Standard For Wireless

Wireless has been on the mind of NIST officials for some time. Understanding the inherent risk of unsecure wireless networks ripe for the picking using such easy-to-install programs like NetStumbler, the agency put out a call in July asking for recommendations . . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Aug 21, 2002

Exploring Diffie-Hellman Encryption

The GNU bc threaded code compiler, included with most Linux distributions, provides arbitrary precision arithmetic that can handle the large numbers used in modern cryptography. Here we use the bc compiler to explore Diffie-Hellman public key encryption. . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Aug 19, 2002

Unlocking the Secrets of Crypto: Cryptography, Encryption, and Cryptology Explained

Encryption, decryption and code breaking came into the public consciousness in the 1980s with popularity of the movie War Games. It became newsworthy in the 1990s with the legal battles surrounding PGP and the political discussion of the Clipper Chip. Now, . . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Aug 13, 2002

'Creative Attacks' Beat Crypto -- Expert

In 1998 cryptographer Paul Kocher developed a method for deducing the secret key embedded in a cryptographic smart card by monitoring tiny fluctuations in power consumption. Three years earlier, at the tender age of 22, he made headlines with a technique to compromise implementations of the RSA algorithm -. . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Aug 09, 2002

FreeS/WAN: The KEY debate

This week's lists.freeswan.org Email Summary reports that Michael Richardson debated the new DNS Key-Restrict draft with folks from the list This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.. If that draft is widely implemented, FreeS/WAN will need to use a different DNS record type to distribute public keys. Interesting stuff.. . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Aug 07, 2002

Scalable Encryption Solutions For Today’s Environment

The scope and character of today's computing environment is changing dramatically. There are more systems in more locations and these are often spread across the world. Many, if not most, IT organizations today, are running lights-out data center operations. There are . . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Aug 06, 2002

What Does the Future Hold for PGP?

Bad things do happen to good code. So learned Phil Zimmermann, author of Pretty Good Privacy, which in the early 1990s became the de facto standard for cryptology development on the Internet, according to analysts and user groups. . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jul 24, 2002

VPN Setup using IPsec

Manish Arya has contributed an article he has written on using FreeS/WAN to build a VPN. "IPsec has many implementations.one of the common IPsec implementations is Freeswan. IPsec provides encryption and authentication services at the IP (Internet Protocol) level of the network protocol stack. freeswan is a opensource IPsec implementation available from https://www.freeswan.org/ IPsec can protect any traffic carried over IP, unlike other encryption which generally protects only a particular higher-level protocol. . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jul 24, 2002

IETF puts weight behind Advanced Encryption Standard

The Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) has published standards for improvements to SSL which add support for the recently ratified Advanced Encryption Standard. Request for Comments (RFC) 3268 adds support for AES to the TLS protocol (Transport Layer Security - which. . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jul 23, 2002

Encryption Market Heats Up But PGP Still on Ice

Demand is growing for desktop and wireless encryption but Network Associates (NAI) says it has no plans to resurrect its Pretty Good Privacy (PGP) range, despite requests from users. The IT security firm announced it was suspending the development of its. . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jul 19, 2002

Crypto Controls are Spreading Internationally

Five years ago, when the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) released their guidelines for cryptography policy, crypto advocates cheered and declared victory. After a hard fought battle, we had forced the OECD to back away from the U.S. government's . . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jul 15, 2002

The Keys to a More Secure Future

Sometime in July, a team of hackers will try to break into the computer networks that run key utilities around the U.S. The strikes won't come from Islamic cyberterrorists -- who in recent days have been rumored to be planning such attacks themselves -- but rather from friendly teams of security analysts the Electric Power Research Institute has hired to find chinks in the armor of conventional power plants.. . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jul 10, 2002

Is Your Storage Encrypted?

You're exposing yourself to significant risk as long as the data on your network (data in transit) and in your storage (data at rest) is not encrypted. That's what a paranoid security specialist will tell you. . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jul 10, 2002

Encryption and Security Requirements for IETF Standard Protocols

Security needs to be provided end-to-end or host to host. The IETF's security role is to ensure that IETF standard protocols have the necessary features to provide appropriate security for the application as it may be used across the Internet. Mandatory . . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jul 09, 2002

ARM Makes Deal For Cryptographic Core

ARM has licensed a security accelerator core from SafeNet Inc. (Baltimore, Md.), a security technology leader in the virtual private network (VPN) market. The move responds to concerns about security in consumer and business applications, from wireless to smart-card chips. . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jul 09, 2002

Quantum Computing Puts Encrypted Messages At Risk

Given that quantum computers will provide an enormous power boost, encryption experts believe that current standards for encryption, which are based on computational difficulty, will then fall. . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jul 08, 2002

Crypto Challenge Had Geeks Scratching Their Heads

A cryptography challenge run by Cape Town-based Thawte Computing is attracting interest from around the world with entrants from as far as Afghanistan and Barbados struggling to crack the code. . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jul 08, 2002

GPLed Camera/Shy encryption tool: It's like "drag queens for democracy"

When the activists at Hacktivismo.com announced they were releasing a browser-based steganography application during the H2K2 Convention in New York City later this week, we thought that was pretty interesting -- and brave, considering all the recent speculation about how terrorists . . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jul 06, 2002

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