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Conventional Public Key Infrastructure: An Artefact Ill-Fitted to the Needs of the Information Socie

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This is a great document that explains public key infrastructure, X.509 and certificates, and the problems with existing methods. "Conventional PKI, built around ISO standard X.509, has been, and will continue to be, a substantial failure. This paper examines that form . . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Nov 14, 2000

SSL In The Driver's Seat

E-commerce is driving the Internet economy; e-commerce wouldn't be driving anything if users didn't purchase items online; overcoming users fears while shopping online has been the major hurdle in growing e-commerce; a single Internet protocol has almost single handedly increased e-commerce . . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Nov 13, 2000

Encryption system for govt bosses

Top bureaucrats will be able to swap classified material on the Net with the launch this week of a "Secure Electronic Environment" linking Treasury, the State Services Commission and the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet.. . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Nov 13, 2000

Quantum Key Distribution: The Future of Security?

The US Government is adopting a new encryption standard called Advanced Encryption Standard (AES), which will eventually replace DES. On October 2, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) announced that it had chosen Rijndael (pronounced Rhine-doll) as the new . . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Nov 10, 2000

The encryption algorithm demolition derby

In the early seventies the US government put out a call for an encryption algorithm. It had no response. A year later in 1973 they tried again and got one response, from IBM. Then followed a bit of politicking, but by . . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Nov 02, 2000

Bush Blasts Clinton Administration Encryption Stance

Responding to a question about encryption technology in an ongoing Internet debate, Texas Gov. George W. Bush today castigated President Clinton and Vice President Gore for what he called "outdated" technology policy. "The Clinton administration has repeatedly been slow to recognize . . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Nov 02, 2000

Encrypting Data in Web Forms

This month's Linux Gazette has an article on, well, encrypting data in web forms. Linux Gazette is a great online magazine, and this month is no exception. "There may be times when you want to send encrypted data . . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Nov 01, 2000

U.S. crypto winners -- Belgian heroes

The U.S. government likes that number. Earlier this month, it selected Rijmen and Daemen's brainchild as the new Advanced Encryption Standard. That means Rijndael will soon become the shield of choice to protect sensitive U.S. government information, financial transactions and Internet . . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Oct 25, 2000

VPN IPsec: Progress Slow But Steady

This is a pretty article that discusses why IPSec is slow going, and how now vendors are starting to work together to make sure their products interoperate when building a VPN. "As the number of VPN gateways increases, so does the . . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Oct 24, 2000

Navy plans IPv6 tests

The Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center in Charleston, S.C., in the coming year plans to test an IPv6 version of the Non-Classified IP Router Network. Government organizations are conducting "lots of IPv6 impact studies" in view of the rapidly declining . . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Oct 24, 2000

World's Toughest Code Cracked

This Wired story describes the recent contest created to decipher 10 increasingly difficult codes set by author Simon Singh in his international bestseller The Code Book. Quite interesting. There's also the step-by-step analysis of what the Swedish cryptographers did in their . . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Oct 23, 2000

Cache on Demand

SET and a relative newcomer-IOTP-offer robust security frameworks for online transactions. So why haven't they threatened SSL's dominance as a payment protocol? When it comes to transaction security, Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) has been the de facto protocol for a . . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Oct 23, 2000

New Encryption Regulations Take Effect On Today

In the final step toward matching the European Union's recent liberalization of rules governing the export of encryption products, the Commerce Department's Bureau of Export Administration has published a final rule allowing the export of encryption products of any strength to . . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Oct 20, 2000

Crypto Expert Warns That Cryptography Not Secure Enough

One of the world's leading experts on computer security said that because of recent developments in the online world, cryptography on its own is now not enough to protect systems in the digital world. In his new book, Bruce Schneier, an . . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Oct 13, 2000

Cracked! 'World's toughest' code broken

A team of Swedish computer buffs has fought off thousands of rivals from around the world to crack what was billed as the toughest code challenge ever set. It took the Swedes the equivalent of 70 years of computer time to . . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Oct 12, 2000

LCI-SMARTpen AES Compliance

The new model of LCI-SMARTpen is the first in the world to comply with new encryption standard. "The National Institute for Standards and Technology (NIST) has selected Rijndael as the proposed Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) algorithm. The AES will be . . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Oct 12, 2000

International Kernel Patch 2.2.17.7

The idea of the International Kernel Patch is to collect all crypto patches so that using crypto in the kernel will be easier than today. The patch includes a number of crypto patches including a crypto API including Blowfish, CAST-128, DES, . . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Oct 11, 2000

Enigma machine deadline passes

As most may know, one of three existing Enigma machines was stolen a few months ago. Bletchley Park Museum had agreed to hand over a £25,000 ransom before midnight on Friday but the deadline passed with no word from the . . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Oct 10, 2000

Cryptography, PGP and Pine

This article starts out with a nice description of cryptography then goes into how to incorporate PGP for use with Pine. "Encryption is the transformation of data into a form that is (hopefully) impossible to read without the knowledge of a . . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Oct 05, 2000

AES (rijndael) support in NetBSD-current IPsec code

NetBSD-current IPsec (from KAME) now supports rijndael algorithm for ESP encryption, thanks to the integration work of Jun-ichiro itojun Hagino. rijndael is the finalist of AES contest, and will be standardized in FIPS standard suite, to replace DES.. . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Oct 04, 2000

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Abyss Locker Ransomware Targets Linux & Windows Users

Linux Foundation Joins Post-Quantum Cryptography Alliance

New Decryption Key Available for Babuk Tortilla Ransomware Victims