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Vegas 'Quantum Spookshow' Demos On-the-Fly Encryption of Streaming VideoLas Vegas shows often are on the cutting edge. Following this tradition, researchers from the National Institute of Standards and Technology and their colleagues at the National University of Singapore have ...
Source : Topix.net | 08-Aug-2008 00:58
Hacking Mifare Transport Cards
London's Oyster card has been cracked , and the final details will become public in October.
Source : Topix.net | 07-Aug-2008 16:47
_Electronic Signatures in Law_, Stephen Mason, 2007
Electronic signatures are now present in legal cases to the extent that while they remain novel, they are not without precedence.
Source : Topix.net | 07-Aug-2008 08:34
Comodo Cryptography Expert To Deliver Speech At Workshop On Cryptographic Hardware & Embedded Systems
Dr Colin Walter's speech will focus on recovering secret keys from weak channel traces Jersey City, NJ, August 06, 2008 - Comodo, a global leader in Identity and Trust Assurance Management solutions, is pleased ...
Source : Topix.net | 07-Aug-2008 00:20
Attaching a digital Certificate(public Key) To a Https Request
Posting data To HTTPS url from a windows application by attaching Digital Certificates and getting the response back Introduction This article will guide you on how to post data To HTTPS url from a windows ...
Source : Topix.net | 06-Aug-2008 16:16
SSL, X509, ASN.1 and certificate validity dates
I was curious about how SSL certificates store validity information , so I ended up reading the X509 specification , as well as the ASN.1 information for UTCTimes .
Source : Topix.net | 06-Aug-2008 10:46
CRM for BlackBerry Implemented for Genzyme by Vaultus
BlackBerry handhelds. Genzyme officials said Vaultus Mobile Technologies worked on implementing the project.
Source : Topix.net | 06-Aug-2008 02:36
Layered Security, Enabling Business - Entrust Deploys Range of Solutions for BNSF Railway
Layered Security, Enabling Business - Entrust Deploys Range of Solutions for BNSF Railway > DALLAS, Aug.
Source : Topix.net | 05-Aug-2008 18:29
Authentication with low bandwidth trusted channels
Peter Saint-Andre recently suggested that we add a "Short Authentication String" mode to TLS.
Source : Topix.net | 05-Aug-2008 10:15
Web Security and Privacy: An American Perspective
The Information Society , Vol. 15, No. 4. , pp. 249-256. privacy Abstract Browsing the Web gives one the heady feeling of walking without footprints in cyberspace.
Source : Topix.net | 04-Aug-2008 06:23
The Virtues of Mature and Minimalist Cryptography
This installment of Crypto Corner takes a concise look at some of the issues responsible for why cryptography usually ends up looking bad, in practice, and fails to establish the right threat model, let alone ...
Source : Topix.net | 02-Aug-2008 06:08
Design, Not Patching, Key To Secure Software
The current DNS cache poisoning variation requiring a fix on numerous nameservers around the globe could have been anticipated and stopped; one developer did that in 2000.
Source : Topix.net | 31-Jul-2008 06:06
Oyster cracker vows to clone cards
The hacker who broke the security of London's Oyster cards plans to clone the cards to prove that it can be done.
Source : Topix.net | 30-Jul-2008 21:29
Oyster cracker vows to clone cards
The hacker who broke the security of London's Oyster cards plans to clone the cards to prove that it can be done.
Source : Topix.net | 30-Jul-2008 06:25
Aladdin Chief Cryptographer to Present Black Hat Briefing an...
CHICAGO, IL, July 29 / MARKET WIRE/ -- Aladdin Knowledge Systems , an information security leader specializing in authentication, software DRM and content security, today announced that Chief Cryptographer ...
Source : Topix.net | 30-Jul-2008 01:43
Clustering and Categorization Applied to Cryptanalysis
DOI thefillm Abstract This article presents a new application for Information Retrieval techniques.
Source : Topix.net | 29-Jul-2008 12:12
Number Story: From Counting to Cryptography
Publisher: Copernicus Books Details: 323 pages, Hardcover Price: $25.00 ISBN: 9781848000001 Category: General Topics: Number Theory, Mathematics for the General Reader, History of Mathematics See the table of ...
Source : Topix.net | 29-Jul-2008 04:04
Secret Key Encryption Demo
Introduction Encryption is the processes of transforming electronic data from a "plain text" state to an unreadable state by use of a cipher, also known as a algorithm.
Source : Topix.net | 27-Jul-2008 07:11
Toolkit breaks FileVault and BitLocker
Co-authors Seth Schoen and Jacob Appelbaum wrote the code that allows encryption keys to be snagged.
Source : Topix.net | 26-Jul-2008 14:50
How OpenDNS, PowerDNS and MaraDNS remained unaffected by the DNS cache poisoning vulnerability?
The short answer is being paranoid about tackling a known vulnerability. It's 2001 , and Daniel J. Bernstein , author of the then popular djbdns security-aware DNS implementation, is applying basic math ...
Source : Topix.net | 25-Jul-2008 20:08
How to protect your software applications?
Protect your software applications from piracy by using these hardware keys for token-based licensing scheme and data encryption Rahul Sah BANGALORE, INDIA: Software solution providers incur huge losses due to ...
Source : Topix.net | 24-Jul-2008 21:30
USB dongle handles complicated access apps
Using a unique, hard-coded identification number, the USB -Key security device from Future Technology Devices International can interface to any USB host or hub to provide application software access control or ...
Source : Topix.net | 24-Jul-2008 05:56
MXI Security gets government security certification for USB Drive
What does it take to proof yours is the most secure portable USB drive on the market at the moment? A little bit of extra certification perhaps - that is what MXI Security seems to be thinking with its 16 GB ...
Source : Topix.net | 23-Jul-2008 09:57
Prime Factors Releases a New Bank Card Security System to Support EMV2000 Specifications
The name EMV comes from the initial letters of Europay, MasterCard and VISA, the three companies which originally cooperated to develop the chip card standard.
Source : Topix.net | 23-Jul-2008 01:43
Tumbleweed Licenses Certicom's Elliptic Curve Cryptography
Certicom , an industry leader in elliptic curve cryptography security, announced today that Tumbleweed Communications Corp.
Source : Topix.net | 21-Jul-2008 23:38
Bletchley Park kicks so much ass
Yesterday, I got one of the best and most memorable birthday presents of my life -- a trip to the legendary Bletchley Park, site of the British WWII codebreaking effort, where Turing and co invented modern ...
Source : Topix.net | 21-Jul-2008 15:15
Increased SIP Performance with Stream Control Transmission Protocol - ...
Session Initiation Protocol , the advantages of Stream Control Transmission Protocol include increased congestion, multi-streaming and multi-homing. In an animated tutorial a chart lists the other advantages ...
Source : Topix.net | 20-Jul-2008 02:42
Thales Offer for nCipher Targets Customer Base
An increase in stored data encryption is fueling enterprise demand for key management capabilities.
Source : Topix.net | 19-Jul-2008 18:28
Researchers show up deniable file system crypto leaks
Crytography researchers have demonstrated weaknesses in encryption technology used to create so-called deniable file systems .
Source : Topix.net | 19-Jul-2008 10:14
SSL certificates part of huge 'confidence' game
Is the current health-care system putting your business under the weather? No, we're in perfect health.
Source : Topix.net | 19-Jul-2008 02:12
Can obscurity make cryptography better?
I often disagree when the so-called experts talk about security in terms of binary decisions.
Source : Topix.net | 18-Jul-2008 18:29
Genius Helped By Real Genius
Young-adult SF author Catherine Jinks told SCI FI Wire that her latest novel, Genius Squad , was a challenge to write because her protagonist is a math and computer genius, while she herself is not.
Source : Topix.net | 17-Jul-2008 13:51
"It was beautiful, kind of like abstract art"
In March 2007, the FermiLab Office of Public Affairs in Batavia, IL "received a curious message in code " via USPS.
Source : Topix.net | 17-Jul-2008 05:44
On the Security of Provably Secure Multi-Receiver ID-Based Signcryption Scheme
E-mail: chik.tan{at}hig.no Abstract Recently, Duan and Cao proposed an multi-receiver identity-based signcryption scheme.
Source : Topix.net | 16-Jul-2008 21:29
Security Analysis of a Variant of Self-Shrinking Generator
E-mail: dlee{at}ensec.re.kr ; jhpark{at}ensec.re.kr jwhan{at}ensec.re.kr Abstract A variant of the self-shrinking generator proposed at ICISC 2006, which we call SSG-XOR, was claimed to have better ...
Source : Topix.net | 16-Jul-2008 05:31
Cryptanalysis of an Identity Based Proxy Multi-Signature Scheme
IEICE Transactions on Fundamentals of Electronics, Communications and Computer Sciences 2008 E91-A :1820-1823; doi:10.1093/ietfec/e91-a.7.1820 Regular Section -- Letters -- Cryptography and Information Security ...
Source : Topix.net | 15-Jul-2008 21:27
More on IPETEE
In the comments section, Olle responds to my comments on IPETEE: "Like IPsec, IPETEE lives at the IP layer" No, IPSec is an IP protocol, IPETEE is an application layer wrapper totally independent of ...
Source : Topix.net | 15-Jul-2008 13:19
Control Your Linux Server Remotely with GnuPG, procmail, and PHP
Of course, this solution had one crucial requirement: it had to be secure. The server had to respond only to senders who were identified and authorized, and the command sent to the server, along with its ...
Source : Topix.net | 14-Jul-2008 18:10
Confusion property of symmetric block ciphers
Modern symmetric block encryption algorithms need to satisfy a number of properties to be considered strong.
Source : Topix.net | 14-Jul-2008 09:58
Summer Books: Digital Fortress by Dan Brown
Filed at 17:00 on 13th July 2008. Filed by sjhoward at 17:00 on Sunday, 13th July 2008 under Summer Books .
Source : Topix.net | 13-Jul-2008 19:57
The advantage of cryptographic algorithms in Ultrium LTO Backup Tape Drive
The ultrium LTO tape offers its users the best solutions to solve the backup storage issues There are different encryption techniques used in the LTO backup tape format.
Source : Topix.net | 12-Jul-2008 18:53
Software crypto on CMT
Lawrence Spracklen wrote a really interesting article about cryptography done in software on CMT .
Source : Topix.net | 12-Jul-2008 14:27
CLR Security Team CodePlex Site
The CLR Security Team just launched our CodePlex site: http://www.codeplex.com/clrsecurity . Currently, it contains two assemblies that provide additional functionality to the security APIs shipped in v3.5 of ...
Source : Topix.net | 11-Jul-2008 06:45
Gmail users protected from fake eBay, PayPal emails
Google on Tuesday said it is now using an email-authentication technology to keep phishers from luring Gmail users to fake eBay and PayPal web pages in order to steal usernames and passwords.
Source : Topix.net | 10-Jul-2008 22:36
PrePrint: Cryptanalysis of a New Ultralightweight RFID Authentication Protocol - SASI
Since RFID tags are ubiquitous and at times even oblivious to the human user, all modern RFID protocols are designed to resist tracking so that the location privacy of the human RFID user is not violated.
Source : Topix.net | 10-Jul-2008 12:24
Cryptography pays the piper
FRED PIPER doesn't like to talk about himself. He even sounds pleased when you tell him that it isn't all that easy to learn much about him from a Google search he has no Wikipedia entry.
Source : Topix.net | 09-Jul-2008 11:56