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Source: The Atlantic

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Discretix Technologies has announced that its CryptoCell technology is to be used in future GPRS and third-generation (3G) wireless handsets from Ericsson. The move should lead to greater security for wireless applications on Ericsson smartphones.

Source: NewScientist

Relatively weak encryption appears to have been used to protect files recovered from two computers believed to have belonged to al-Qaeda operatives in Afghanistan.

The files were found on a laptop and desktop computer bought by Wall Street Journal reporters from looters in Kabul a few days after it was captured by Northern Alliance forces on 13 November. The files provide information about reconnaissance missions to Europe and the Middle East.

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The key generation idea is likely to see opposition from law enforcement and government, especially during the current war on terrorism. Last week, a U.S. District Court told the Justice Department that it could keep its keystroke-logging technology under wraps, even as the Feds used information gathered by the snoopware as evidence in the trial of alleged Mafia defendant Nicodemo Scarfo, Jr.

Source: CNN

RSA Security Inc. Monday will announce new technology designed to improve the security of wireless networks used within buildings and protect them from so-called "drive-by hacks."

Bedford, Massachusetts-based RSA and Hifn of Los Gatos, California, have developed a technology patch for the Wireless Equivalent Privacy (WEP) protocol designed to encrypt communications transferred over standard 802.11 wireless networks.

British boffins have made a breakthrough in quantum cryptography, an advanced code-making technology which is theoretically uncrackable, by developing a single photon-emitting diode.

The researchers from the University of Cambridge and Toshiba have discovered a way of incorporating semiconductor nano-technology into an LED so they can trigger the emission of single photons at regulated times.

Source: Vnunet

Scientists from Toshiba's research division, collaborating with the University of Cambridge, have made a discovery that may bring the concept of quantum encryption closer to reality.
The development of a Light Emitting Diode (LED) capable of firing a single photon, has prompted researchers to say the technology could be applied to optical communications as a security measure.

Quantum cryptography is one of the technologies the single photon source could be applied to.

Source: BBC

The heart of a new light-emitting diode (LED) developed in Cambridge, UK, can be controlled so precisely that it emits just one single photon of light each time it is switched on. The device could be a key component in quantum cryptography, a code-making technology which, it is hoped, will be uncrackable.

The ability to send single packets of light already exists but this is the first time a device has been built without using lasers.

A Bit Cypher (ABC) is a free program from IBM alphaWorks that can take any data file and transform it to a cyphered form that is "reasonably" unbreakable. Given the key used for cyphering, ABC can take the cyphered form and reproduce the original file exactly.

The strength of the cypher comes from the number of keys, 10,000,000,000, and the processing required to determine the mapping for each key, assuming the algorythm is at hand for decyphering.

It's always been difficult to keep secrets. It's even more difficult when necessity forces you to write those secrets down and move them around the Internet, whose open systems make it easy for eavesdroppers to glance at the information we send over the wires.