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IBM Introduces Rapid Encryption Method For Secure Mobile Communications

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IBM Corp. announced Thursday a secure method for digitally scrambling and signing data that it claims will take half the time of today's fastest techniques. IBM billed the combination encryption-authentication technique as especially suitable to secure mobile communications because of . . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Dec 02, 2000

Understanding Encryption Laws and Their Influence on Free Speech

Encryption software has sparked regulation by the U.S. government and at least two important lawsuits involving the First Amendment. Exporting encryption products requires a thorough understanding of what's legal and what's not. This article explains the issues. . . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Nov 22, 2000

Exploring Anonymity Protocols By Chaum And Brands in Cryptography

The work of David Chaum and Stefan Brands on protocols, such as blind signatures, that provide anonymity has attracted a great deal of interest among people interested in cryptography. In the RSA algorithm, given a public key consisting of an encryption . . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Nov 17, 2000

RSA Security Restarts Collaboration Following US Export Policy Shift

Australia is said to be at least two years behind the United States when it comes to the internet, so the two-year communication blackout between the US and Australian branches of encryption developer RSA Security seems entirely appropriate. The ban existed . . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Nov 14, 2000

Exploring X.509 Shortcomings and Alternatives in Public Key Infrastructure

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

Boosting E-Commerce with SSL Encryption for Secure Transactions

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

New Secure Electronic Environment For Government Classified Material

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

AES Security Enhancement Through Quantum Key Distribution

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

Evolution of DES and AES Encryption Algorithms in Cryptography

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 Slams Clinton's Outdated Encryption Policy in Cybersecurity Debate

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

Data Encryption Techniques In Web Forms From Linux Gazette

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. Government Chooses Rijndael As Advanced Encryption Standard

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

Exploring IPSec VPN Collaboration for Improved Interoperability

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 IPv6 Testing Initiative: Improving Network Security Measures

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

Decoding Simon Singh's Challenge: Ten Complex Codes to Break

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

Examining SET And IOTP Security Frameworks For Enhanced Transaction Safety

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 EU Export Rules for Unrestricted Encryption Products

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

Bruce Schneier's Warning On Cryptography And Online Security

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

Swedish Team Achieves Historic Code Breakthrough After 70 Years

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: First To Meet NIST AES Compliance Standards

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

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