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Exploring NSS Libraries For Cross-Platform Security Applications

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Network Security Services (NSS) is a set of libraries designed to support cross-platform development of security-enabled client and server applications. These libraries provide the security foundation for a variety of server products from iPlanet E-Commerce Solutions, including iPlanet Certificate Management System, . . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Sep 18, 2000

Exploring Encryption Techniques To Enhance Data Protection

Encryption is the process of converting data from one form (what would be considered to be readable either through plaintext or through some specific viewer like MS Word) into ciphertext. The actual process that takes place during this conversion widely varies, . . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Sep 18, 2000

Impact of Software Patents on Innovation and Security in the Tech Industry

Over the last year or so, we've heard a lot about how software patents, which became legal in the U.S. in 1981, stifle innovation. James Bessen and Eric Maskin conducted a study showing that ``far from unleashing a flurry of new . . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Sep 15, 2000

Creating Dynamic Template-Driven Pages For E-Commerce Using Perl And Python

This article talks about "template-driven pages, this time using Perl and Python to deliver those SSI templates straight into CGI documents. In the last article we examined the different ways in which we could introduce pages purely using the SSI (Server . . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Sep 13, 2000

Competitive Surge in PKI Tools Following RSA Patent Expiration

RSA's competitors' reactions to the expiration are mixed. Baltimore Technologies Inc. responded with its own announcement of new products and initiatives. It's eliminating its runtime licensing for its PKI development suite KeyTools and will switch to a flat fee, and it's also offering a free KeyTools Lite, which includes cryptographic and digital certificate functions, including communication with a certificate authority or a Lightweight Directory Access Protocol directory. . . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Sep 08, 2000

Global RSA Algorithm Release: Open Source Software for Cryptography

The release of the algorithm is a good thing because you can now create cryptographic software using one RSA implementation and distribute it worldwide without having to license anything from RSA. ... This is good news because you can, for example, . . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Sep 08, 2000

Exploring GPG vs PGP: Key Distinctions and Benefits Explained

What are the relative merits and drawbacks of using Gnu Privacy Guard vs. Network Associates' PGP. I am not referring to the fact that GPG doesn't use any restricted implemtations or algorithems; or that GPG was not affected by the recent . . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Sep 07, 2000

RSA Algorithm Patent Release Enhances E-Commerce Security Standards

... Despite RSA's gesture, several competitors who have paid royalties for use of the algorithm for up to 17 years, argue that the industry could have done with the patent relaxation earlier. "Of course its fantastic news, but after 17 years to suddenly release it two weeks early is a bit of a stunt," says Paddy Holahan, vice president of marketing at Baltimore Technology. "It has held back e-commerce.". . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Sep 06, 2000

Tracking RSA Patent Expiration And Its Impact On Software Development

Interested in knowing up to the second increments on the status of the impending RSA patent expiration? This site also provides a view on what the author thinks of software patents to begin with... "The patent office has shown remarkable incompetence . . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Sep 05, 2000

PGP Security Flaw Explained by Phil Zimmermann Regarding Key Escrow

Phil Zimmermann, the creator of Pretty Good Privacy (PGP), responds to the recent flaw discovered in Network Associates implementation of the Additional Decryption Key (ADK) feature. This is a key escrow account that allows a responsible third-party to gain access to . . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Sep 05, 2000

Understanding Bruce Schneier's Views on Security Paradoxes

Master cryptographer Bruce Schneier's "Secrets and Lies" explains why computer security is an oxymoron. Bruce Schneier, master cryptographer and idol of the computer underground, targets those short-attention-spanners in his latest book, "Secrets and Lies: Digital Security in a Networked World." Aiming . . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Aug 31, 2000

Effective Data Encryption Strategies To Enhance Information Security

Encrypting data before storage or transmission involves a bit of extra work. This often means that people who ought to be using encryption, instead of relying on the assumption that their data will not be intercepted, fail to do so. But it is also true that some of the people who use encryption are keenly aware of the importance of keeping their information secret.. . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Aug 31, 2000

Effective Encryption Against Carnivore E-mail Surveillance Threat

Even as the FBI slowly releases details of its Carnivore e-mail wiretap technology, software developers are readying schemes to starve Carnivore of meaningful data.. . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Aug 28, 2000

Major Security Flaw In PGP Email Encryption Exposes User Data Risk

A GERMAN RESEARCHER has discovered a major security flaw in the latest versions of the PGP free e-mail encryption software that could allow someone to read another person's encrypted e-mail if he or she was able to intercept it. . . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Aug 25, 2000

Yahoo Mail Introduces Encryption For Enhanced User Privacy

Yahoo plans to let its email account holders use data encryption to protect the privacy of their messages, marking a potentially significant advance for the mainstream use of encryption. . . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Aug 25, 2000

OpenPGP Critical Flaw Moderate: Intercepting Messages With Modified Keys

A very serious PGP vulnerability was just discovered. Using this vulnerability, an attacker can create a modified version of someone's public key that will force a sender to encrypt messages to that person AND to the attacker.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Aug 24, 2000

Join The RSA Patent Expiration Celebration This September

"In late September, 2000, the RSA Patent expires. Rivest, Shamir, and Adelman, Public Key Cryptography's most famous supergroup, developed this algorithm about 20 years ago. If you are planning a party, tell us. We're going to make a list, and . . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Aug 24, 2000

Guide to Installing PGPcmdfw 6.5.2 on Linux for Enhanced Security

The following is a description of how I got a Linux version of the PGP encryption program, how I installed it, and a few observations about quirks in the program. The Linux version of PGP that I got is PGPcmdfw_6.5.2_Linux.i386.rpm and . . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Aug 23, 2000

Understanding Digital Security Management Strategies by Bruce Schneier

Bruce Schneier, computer security expert, CTO and founder of Counterpane Internet Security, Inc., has written a new book specifically for corporate managers. Secrets and Lies: Digital Security in a Networked World is a practical, straightforward guide to understanding and achieving security . . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Aug 23, 2000

Automating SSH-Agent for Secure Access on Red Hat Systems

Security is best when it is handy. ssh-agent is pretty darn handy. Ssh-agent can authenticate you to a remote machine via keypairs, rather than the traditional hand-typed username/password combination, with no loss of security.. . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Aug 21, 2000

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