Source: Yahoo DailyNews
L33tdawg: Rijndael is certainly not something new. If I'm not mistaken it's been around for about 2 or 3 years now.
The U.S. government has updated its encryption standard for computer transmissions, replacing an aging standard first put in place in 1977, the Commerce Department (news - web sites) said on Tuesday.
Source: InfoSecNews
Amino Communications has taken the wraps off its Network Diversity technology, which it says will allow sensitive information to be transmitted securely over the Internet without encrypting the data.
Source: Security Focus
"Once the online haunt of top cryptographers, the Cypherpunks list was characterized by its mix of revolutionary politics and advanced mathematics. This week, a founder pronounced it dead and buried."
The Cypherpunks list, an online forum that in many ways defined Internet activism, was booted unceremoniously from its original home, toad.com, earlier this week.
Source: CanadaComputes
Fears that encryption technology will facilitate communication for terrorist groups have prompted a recent debate in the US over the idea of giving government a special "back door" software key to systems on the market.
Source: ZDNet
By: Bruce Schneier
The scheme to protect DVDs has been broken. There are now freeware programs on the Net that remove the copy protection on DVDs, allowing them to be played, edited, and copied without restriction.
This should be no surprise to anyone, least of all to the entertainment industry.
To date, when physicists have dreamed of quantum computing devices, they have most often envisioned encoding the data in terms of electron spin states. But a new gizmo developed by Ataç Imamoglu, Pierre Petroff, Evelyn Hu and their colleagues at the University of California at Santa Barbara offers another option—namely, using polarized light as qubits. The scientists describe in today's issue of Science a mushroom-shaped microdisk, combined with a quantum dot, capable of emitting single photons (see image).
Many companies have reassessed their technology initiatives in the month since the tragic attacks on the United States. Some are focusing on security measures for IT systems while others are deepening efforts to secure facilities and intellectual property.
As lawmakers re-examined the nation's security in
the aftermath of Sept. 11th's terrorist attacks, the
liberal encryption policy established by the Clinton
administration appeared to be a likely target for
change.
After all, some reasoned, the policy makes it possible
for anyone -- including possible terrorists -- to send
secret e-mails cloaked by codes so strong the
National Security Agency can't crack them.
F-Secure Corporation today announced that it has signed a software license and distribution agreement with Compaq Computer Corporation (NYSE: CPQ) to provide data protection for the new Compaq iPAQ Pocket PC H3800 Series handheld PC. The agreement provides for F-Secure's new file encryption product, F-Secure FileCrypto for Pocket PC Personal Edition, to be distributed as part of the standard package on all Compaq iPAQ Pocket PC H3800 models introduced today.
Strong cryptography does more good for society than harm and placing backdoors in encryption products to allow law enforcement access to plain text messages would be "worse than futile", encryption guru Phil Zimmermann told The Register today.
Zimmermann, the creator of the popular email encryption package PGP, told us that reversing the policy of allowing strong cryptography "under the terrible emotional pressure" created by the September 11 atrocities would be a "mistake".
