Encryption

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Source: ELECTRONIC TIMES

A smartcard architecture based on asynchronous design techniques has been proposed as a solution to a hacking technique that could compromise existing crypto-processor designs.

The hack uses light from a flash gun focused through a microscope to create glitches in CMOS circuitry, for example by flipping the value of individual bits of data stored in SRAM cells.

Source: Linux Focus

Source: Guru 3D

Recently Sony introduced a ridiculous copy-protection into CD's. This actual protection will make you PC crash the minute you try to play a track from the CD. Well, good news. Take a felt-pen make note of the following.

Source: Security Focus

Music disc copyright protection schemes such a Cactus Data Shield 100/200 and KeyAudio can be circumvented using tools as basic as marker pens and electrical tape, crackers have discovered.

The Blue Peter-style hack, which was first unearthed by a reader of chip.de works by covering up the outer ring of a copyright protected audio disc.

Source: CNN

Phil Zimmermann knows a thing or two about adversity. His invention for encrypting e-mail, Pretty Good Privacy, was so good that the government considered it munitions subject to tough export controls. Prosecutors threatened him with criminal charges when others leaked it overseas.
The government ultimately backed off. But now, the company that makes the most popular version of PGP is the one pulling the plug.

It's yet another setback, but Zimmermann isn't rattled.

Source: CIO Insight

Source: IBM.com

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Source: Infoconomy.com