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Report: NSA looking to crack all encryption with quantum computer

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The U.S. National Security Agency is attempting to build a new breed of supercomputer that theoretically could make short work of cracking most keys used for encrypted communications.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jan 03, 2014

Acoustic Cryptanalysis

Here, we describe a new acoustic cryptanalysis key extraction attack, applicable to GnuPG's current implementation of RSA. The attack can extract full 4096-bit RSA decryption keys from laptop computers (of various models), within an hour, using the sound generated by the computer during the decryption of some chosen ciphertexts.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Dec 19, 2013

Quantum crypto pitches for data centre links

The quantum crypto business is hardly crowded, but ID Quantique is hoping to set itself apart with a 100 Gbps-capable unit.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Dec 05, 2013

Twitter upping security to thwart government hacking

Following in the footsteps of other tech companies, Twitter is beefing up its security to make it harder for outsiders -- including the government -- to uncover data, the company announced Friday.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Nov 27, 2013

Thales, Microsoft serve secure crypto in the cloud

Are you concerned about the security of your data in the cloud? Of course you should be, even if you're just an isolated consumer. But what if you're responsible for the security of data for an enterprise?

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Nov 25, 2013

Newegg trial: Crypto legend takes the stand, goes for knockout patent punch

Newegg's courtroom face-off with patent-licensing giant TQP Development is nearing its end. TQP has sued hundreds of companies, saying it has patented the common Web encryption scheme of combining SSL with the RC4 cipher. Almost 140 companies have paid TQP a total of more than $45 million.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Nov 25, 2013

'Encrypt everything:' Google's answer to government surveillance is catching on

While Microsoft's busy selling t-shirts and mugs about how Google's "Scroogling" you, the search giant's chairman is busy tackling a much bigger problem: How to keep your information secure in a world full of prying eyes and governments willing to drag in data by the bucket load. And according to Google's Eric Schmidt, the answer is fairly straightforward.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Nov 22, 2013

Remembering legendary Enigma code breaker Mavis Batey

Cracking one of the most complicated cipher devices ever created -- the Enigma machine -- may not have been what Britain's Mavis Batey envisioned when she studied the German romantic poets at University College London when World War II broke out.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Nov 21, 2013

Experts applaud Google completion of SSL certificate upgrade

Google's faster-than-expected upgrade of all its SSL certificates to an RSA key length of 2048 bits will make cracking connections to the company's services more difficult without affecting performance, experts say.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Nov 20, 2013

NSA spying prompts open TrueCrypt encryption software audit to go viral

A unique effort to crowdsource a security audit of the popular TrueCrypt open source encryption software appears to be going viral three weeks after it was launched by two U.S. based researchers in response to concerns that the National Security Agency may have tampered with it.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Nov 11, 2013

SSL Study Shows Most Sites Incorrectly Configured

Secure Sockets Layer is a standard mechanism websites use to help secure data and transactions, but according to Qualys security researcher Ivan Ristic, most SSL sites are actually misconfigured. Ristic delivered his study here at the Black Hat security conference as an update to the preliminary data he published last month.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Nov 08, 2013

Defending Against Crypto Backdoors

We already know the NSA wants to eavesdrop on the Internet. It has secret agreements with telcos to get direct access to bulk Internet traffic. It has massive systems like TUMULT, TURMOIL, and TURBULENCE to sift through it all. And it can identify ciphertext -- encrypted information -- and figure out which programs could have created it.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Oct 22, 2013

Cracking Open Encryption Standards

Recent revelations about the extent of NSA surveillance have put even the standards by which encryption systems are designed into question. Encryption experts Matthew Green, Phillip Zimmermann, and Martin Hellman discuss what makes a code secure and the limits of privacy in the modern age.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Oct 21, 2013

How the NSA Attacks Tor/Firefox Users With QUANTUM and FOXACID

The online anonymity network Tor is a high-priority target for the National Security Agency. The work of attacking Tor is done by the NSA's application vulnerabilities branch, which is part of the systems intelligence directorate, or SID. The majority of NSA employees work in SID, which is tasked with collecting data from communications systems around the world.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Oct 08, 2013

Goodbye, Encryption; Hello, FOSS

"For years Linux has had a false sense of security, mainly because of the 'many eyes make bugs shallow' myth," Slashdot blogger hairyfeet suggested. "Seriously, show of hands: How many have done a code audit of LibreOffice? Firefox? Chromium?

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Oct 03, 2013

NSA encryption-defeating efforts will backfire

The U.S. National Security Agency's efforts to defeat encryption will backfire by eroding trust in U.S.-based Internet services and in the agency's own efforts to aid U.S. companies with cybersecurity, a group of privacy advocates said Tuesday.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Oct 02, 2013

Hack of major data brokers weakens bank authentication

The reported hack of major consumer and business data aggregators has intensified doubts of the reliability of knowledge-based authentication widely used in the financial services industry, analysts say.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Oct 01, 2013

RSA: That NSA crypto-algorithm we put in our products? Stop using that

Security biz RSA has reportedly warned its customers to stop using the default random-number generator in its encryption products - amid fears spooks can easily crack data secured by the algorithm.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Sep 27, 2013

The devil and the details

Quantum cryptography has yet to deliver a truly unbreakable way of sending messages. Quantum entanglement may change that. RECENT revelations of online snooping on an epic scale, by government agencies which may well have been breaking the law, have prompted some users of the internet to ask who you can trust with sensitive data these days.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Sep 20, 2013

Cryptographers Attack NSA's Secret Effort to Subvert Internet Security

Cryptographers are fighting back against efforts by spy agencies to secretly weaken the encryption standards designed to keep the Internet secure.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Sep 17, 2013

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