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Yahoo released the source code for a plugin that will enable end-to-end encryption of email messages, a planned data-security improvement prompted by disclosures of U.S. National Security Agency snooping.. The company is asking security experts to look at its code, published on GitHub, and report vulnerabilities, wrote Alex Stamos, Yahoo The link for this article located at IT World is no longer available. . The company is asking security experts to look at its code, published on GitHub, and report vulnerab. yahoo, released, source, plugin, enable, end-to-end, encryption, email, messages. . LinuxSecurity.com Team

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VoteHere Invites Experts To Review Voting Software For Security

Not only does this look like a good trend, it looks like a good time can be had by all! Here is a perfectly legitimite target for those who want to sharpen their computer hacking skills. The payoff? A potentially secure electronic voting platform. We believe that the fact that VoteHere has opened their source could ultimately result in a bulletproof ballot integrity system. . . .. VoteHere, a maker of security software for voting machines, published the source code for its product online in hopes of garnering additional analysis of its method for verifying the integrity of electronic votes. The company, which has patented its VHTi technology, wants comments, not competition, so it released the code and several documents to its Web site under a license that restricts use of the code to analysis for a period of 60 days. "We pride ourselves on being good students of cryptography," said Jim Adler, founder and CEO of the Bellevue, Wash.-based company. "We know there is no security through obscurity, so we want to be open." Revealing encryption algorithms for peer review is a standard practice in encryption circles and allows experts to poke holes in other people's technology. VoteHere hopes the additional scrutiny will prove that its technology is sound, Adler said. The company's software is designed to let voters verify that their ballots were properly handled. It assigns random identification numbers to ballots and candidates. After people vote, they get a receipt that shows which candidates they chose--listed as numbers, not names. Voters can then use the Internet and their ballot identification number to check that their votes were correctly counted. "It doesn't protect the system from compromise, but it detects when compromises happen," Adler said. "We are the barking dogs: If anything touches the ballots, it can be detected." The link for this article located at zdnet is no longer available. . VoteHere, a maker of security software for voting machines, published the source code for its produc.trend, looks. . LinuxSecurity.com Team

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