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Cryptography? A Basic Definition
The practice of coding in which data is encrypted and decrypted using an algorithm.
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Elliptic Introduces Ellipsys Security Architecture Premier Security Software Solution for Embedded Systems
Published January 5, 2009, 12:21 pm, CanadaIT.com
OTTAWA, CANADA, December 17, 2008 - Security IP provider Elliptic today announced the launch of its Ellipsys Security Architecture (ESA). As a leading supplier of security IP for the last six years, Elliptic has developed and licensed a portfolio of robust embedded security products that encompass symmetric and asymmetric cryptography, IPsec, secure boot and content protection through DTCP.
Quiz: He said what? (an oddly informative news quiz)
Published January 5, 2009, 7:34 am, IT World
Who isn't going to say hi and walk off? Who flipped an energy-guzzling PC on its head? Who doesn't think breasts are harmful to children? Who has bigger, badder things to worry about than flaws in the MD5 hashing algorithm? Think you know? Take this week's quiz!
Intel claims opto-electronic breakthrough
Published January 5, 2009, 7:23 am, techcentral.ie
A breakthrough in opto-electronics detectors by Intel promises to address the shortage of network bandwidth which some believe could lead to the collapse of the internet. The system could also improve inter-chip and on-chip communications.
The Problem With HTTPS SSL Runs Deeper Than MD5
Published January 5, 2009, 6:15 am, CircleID
The recent research highlighting the alarming practice of Secure Socket Layer (SSL) Certificate Authority (CA) vendors using the MD5 hashing algorithm (which was known to be broken since 2005) has shown a major crack in the foundation of the Web. While the latest research has shown that fake SSL certificates with MD5 hashes can be forged to perfection when the CA (such as VeriSign's RapidSSL) ...
MD5 Is Officially Insecure: Hackers Break SSL Certificates, Impersonate CA
Published January 4, 2009, 2:11 pm, AnandTech
Ever wanted to be an Intermediate Certificate Authority?...
RIM Extends Takeover Bid For Certicom
Published January 3, 2009, 7:28 am, InformationWeek
Once considered a natural fit, the BlackBerry maker's acquisition of security specialist Certicom has turned hostile.
The sky is not falling (re: today's PKI attack)
Published January 1, 2009, 11:01 am, O'Reilly Media
In my last post I talked about how anybody with enough money (a small 6-figure sum) could create a rogue certification authority (CA). This would allow them to generate certificates for any web site that seem to be genuine. That...
iPhone Dev Team Posts Cryptic Message - What Are They Up To?
Published December 31, 2008, 12:05 pm, TechCrunch
On the eve of the iPhone 3G software SIM unlock, the following text just went up on the iPhone Dev Team blog : 01110110 01110100 01100001 01100010 01100101 01110010 00100000 00110110 00110001 00110000 00110110 00110000 00110001 00110111 00110100 00100000 Now, any self-respecting geek should immediately recognize this as binary. If we take that block of binary and convert each 8-number chunk ...
Theoretical attacks yield practical attacks on SSL, PKI
Published December 31, 2008, 9:56 am, Ars Technica
A paper published in 2007 describing a way of attacking a widely-used cryptographic function was widely dismissed as "theoretical." Now, a team of researchers has shown why that was a foolish thing to do, and why you can't trust your browser's padlock icon any more. Read More...
SSL certificate crack threatens e-commerce sites
Published December 31, 2008, 3:47 am, ZDNet UK
A group of security researchers has demonstrated that it is possible to create a "rogue" SSL certificate allowing them to impersonate "any website on the Internet, including banking and e-commerce...
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- chap4_crypto.p df (application/p df Object)
- http://www-cse .ucsd.edu/user s/mihir/papers /gb.html
- http://www.und .nodak.edu/org /crypto/crypto /lanaki.crypt. class/lessons/
- Researchers Show How to Forge Site Certificates | Freedom to Tinker
- FBI
- TrueCrypt - Free Open-Source On-The-Fly Disk Encryption Software for Windows Vista/XP, Mac OS X and Linux
- XML Signature Syntax and Processing (Second Edition)
- MD5 considered harmful today: We have identified a vulnerability in the Internet Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) used to issue digital certificates for secure websites.
- Analysis of Criminal Codes and Ciphers by Olson (Forensic Science Communications , January 2000)
- An intro to Elliptical Curve Cryptography
- Trivium, SSE2, CorePy, and the "cube attack": "One unusual feature of this implementation is worth mentioning - it?s in Python. Rather than writing the code in assember in the traditional way, I took advantage of CorePy to program directly against the x86 ISA in Python. In CorePy, machine instructions, registers and suchlike are first-class objects which can be composed to create executable code. The result is something like writing code to generate assembler input as text, but far more satisfying to work with, resulting in cleaner abstractions and code." -- Paul Crowley, LShift Ltd.
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