Encryption

Source: E-Week

Source: The Register

Researchers at MIT have developed a physical token, based on tiny glass spheres encased in epoxy resin, as a more secure alternative to generating cryptographic keys electronically.

With computers getting ever more powerful, especially when quantum-based technology come on the scene, some predict the mathematical algorithms which underpin current encryption techniques could be broken.

Source: Business Week

Source: GCN

Source: The Register

Source: CNet News

For more than a decade, the United States government classified encryption technology as a weapon. Now that label might actually apply.
Security-consulting firm Foundstone said Thursday that e-mail messages encrypted with the Pretty Good Privacy program can be used as digital bullets to attack and take control of a victim's computer.

Source: The Atlantic

Public-key encryption, as noted in the profile of cryptographer Bruce Schneier, is complicated in detail but simple in outline. The article below is an outline of the principles of the most common variant of public-key cryptography, which is known as RSA, after the initials of its three inventors; a mathematically detailed explanation of RSA by the programmer Brian Raiter, understandable to anyone willing to spend a little time with paper and pencil, is available here.

Source: Satire Wire

L33tdawg: Funny stuff -- I especially like the Björn Haxor bit *grin*.

In an unusual worldwide appeal, the International Brotherhood of Computer Hackers today asked particularly boring people to please stop encrypting their emails.

Source: Internet News

Source: CNet News

PGP Corp. is setting out to do what Network Associates couldn't--entice enterprise customers to buy PGP encryption products by making them easier to use.

On Monday, Network Associates sold its Pretty Good Privacy (PGP) encryption products to PGP Corp., a newly formed company.