Source: Orlando Sentinel
Cheating on income taxes or neglecting to pay sales taxes on online purchases could get you five extra years in prison if the government succeeds in restricting data-scrambling technology, encryption-rights advocates fear.
Such a measure, they worry, might also discourage human-rights workers in, say, Sri Lanka from encrypting the names and addresses of their confidants, in case they fall into the wrong hands.
Source: Security Focus
This is the second article in a two-part series looking at cryptographic filesystems. The first article in this series covered the background on cryptographic filesystems from the underlying concepts to some of the mechanics of those systems. This article will cover implementation. The focus will be on implementing the Microsoft's EFS under Windows 2000 and the Linux CryptoAPI.
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Source: Security Focus
Czech security researchers this week claimed to have uncovered weaknesses in SSL that might permit crackers to decypher transmissions over supposedly secure links.
However, independent cryptography experts, who are studying a paper from Czech security outfit ICZ, are yet to verify the risk is real and as serious as ICZ suggests - so the research needs to be treated with caution.
Source: Sunday Times (South Africa)
The new Regulations of Interception of Communications and Provision of Communication-Related Information Act could prove problematic for crypto providers, who face fines of up to R5 million if they fail to co-operate with the government.
Source: ISP World
Computer security followers are questioning the way the U.S. transportation security administration, which oversees airport security and other transportation issues, is protecting some restricted documents on its Web site.
Four documents available on the "Security and Law Enforcement" section of the TSA Web site can be accessed and stored by any Internet user. A password in Microsoft Word keeps the document from curious eyes.
