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Tool dumbs down wireless hacking

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A hacking tool which can recover the encryption keys used to "protect" data sent over wireless networks has been released on the Internet. AirSnort is one of the first tools that automates the process of breaking in wireless networks and . . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Aug 22, 2001

Handheld VPNs in the works

"Security is the big concern for most enterprises developing handheld wireless strategies," said Alex Slawsby, an analyst who covers "smart" handheld devices for IDC. The best way to secure such access would be to use virtual private network technology, which sets . . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Aug 21, 2001

Wireless Networks in Big Trouble

Wireless networks are a little less secure today with the public release of "AirSnort," a tool that can surreptitiously grab and analyze data moving across just about every major wireless network. When enough information has been captured, AirSnort can then piece together the system's master password.. . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Aug 21, 2001

The Encryption Effort

There have been many articles recently extolling the virtues of encrypting your communications via the internet. But there is another side to this debate. Russell Kay, senior reviews editor of Computerworld in the US, gives us his view. Some writers . . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Aug 19, 2001

AirSnort Wireless LAN Tool

AirSnort is a wireless LAN (WLAN) tool which recovers encryption keys. AirSnort operates by passively monitoring transmissions, computing the encryption key when enough packets have been gathered. 802.11b, using the Wired Equivalent Protocol (WEP), is crippled with numerous security flaws. . . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Aug 18, 2001

Delayed Report on Encryption Flaws to Be Presented

Today a group of Princeton computer scientists will present a research paper that has spurred debate over the freedom of scientific research and a 1998 digital copyright law that places restrictions on the dissemination of decryption information. The paper, which reveals . . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Aug 15, 2001

So much for secure e-mail

Encrypted e-mail has flopped in the enterprise. More than five years after standards were created and vendors rushed to support them, virtually no one secures e-mail today, despite widespread concerns about prying eyes and corrupted data.. . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Aug 15, 2001

Rallies Impress Cryptographer Held in E-Book Case

Dmitri Sklyarov rarely reads electronic books. "There are almost no e-books in Russian," said Mr. Sklyarov, the 26-year- old Moscow cryptographer who was arrested in Las Vegas last month under a 1998 digital copyright law. "I prefer paper books. They're much . . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Aug 11, 2001

Cryptographer: Sklyarov case shows business outweighs First Amendment

Noted cryptographer Bruce Schneier has produced a damning critique of the way the Digital Millennium Copyright Act was used to jail Russian software researcher Dmitry Sklyarov. Schneier, chief technology officer of Counterpane Internet Security, and inventor of the Blowfish algorithm, will . . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Aug 10, 2001

128 Bit Wireless Encryption Cracked

We implemented an attack against WEP, the link-layer security protocol for 802.11 networks. The attack was described in a recent paper by Fluhrer, Mantin, and Shamir. With our implementation, and permission of the network administrator, we were able to recover the . . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Aug 10, 2001

Encryption cores ramp for pervasive security

With subtle distinctions, intellectual-property (IP) core vendors are readying implementations of the Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) security algorithm. The vendors, established and startup, are banking on applications from miniature wireless devices to massively parallel Web servers to support the rapid and . . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Aug 10, 2001

Will PKI bring trust to e-business?

Security vendors continue to tout Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) as a salve to our e-commerce anxieties, but the technology has been slow to catch on. Ovum's Graham Titterington argues that the future of PKI lies in scaling down expectations and focusing . . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Aug 06, 2001

IETF stops work on VPN protocol

The protocol widely used to set up VPN tunnels is potentially insecure and work on extending its use should be halted, according to The Internet Engineering Task Force. Administrative groups within the IETF have put a temporary moratorium on extensions to Internet Key Exchange (IKE) without saying how long that moratorium should last.. . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Aug 06, 2001

Computer security experts call Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) the "panacea" for secure, trusted e-b

PKI is a catchall term for the infrastructure required to manage digital certificates and highly secure encryption. It encompasses a great deal: industry standards, software and hardware systems, business processes and security policies ? even human resources within a company responsible . . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Aug 04, 2001

Understanding RSA/DSA authentication

In this series, you'll learn how RSA and DSA authentication work, and see how to set up passwordless authentication the right way. In the first article of the series, Daniel Robbins focuses on introducing the RSA and DSA authentication protocols and . . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jul 26, 2001

Securing the Future for Privacy and Mobility

Pretty Good Privacy, better known as PGP, is marking its tenth anniversary this year. Free and easy to use, the encryption tool has become one of the most prevalent ways to secure messages traveling the Internet - it is a standard cryptographic solution for users globally.. . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jul 23, 2001

Symmetric Cryptography in Perl

Most well-known symmetric ciphers are block ciphers. The plaintext to be encrypted must be split into fixed-length blocks (usually 64 or 128 bits long) and fed to the cipher one at a time. The resulting blocks (of the same length) are . . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jul 19, 2001

The End of Trust as We Know It?

The recent security announcement from Microsoft acknowledging that an errant code-signing certificate is in the wild (http://www.microsoft.com/) is a clear call to action for those of us charged with the design, deployment and operation of solid information security infrastructure. The question of the moment is, "Exactly what should that action be?". . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jul 09, 2001

Crypto malware close to being 'uncrackable'

File-encrypting Trojans are becoming so complex that the security companies could soon be powerless to reverse their effects, a new report from Kaspersky Lab has said.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jul 06, 2001

Using a Cryptographic Hardware Token with Linux: the OpenSSL Project's New Engine

In this article, I discuss our experience of integrating a hardware cryptographic token under Linux, using another open-source project known as OpenSSL. Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) is a critical technology in today's computer oriented world. Without it there would be . . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jul 03, 2001

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