cryptography, encryption, intelligence, onetimepads, Security technology
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academicpapers, encryption, Security technology, steganography
Interesting research in steganography at the font level. Powered by WPeMatico
cryptography, eavesdropping, email, encryption, pgp, Security technology, signal, vulnerabilities, whatsapp
A new PGP vulnerability was announced today. Basically, the vulnerability makes use of the fact that modern e-mail programs allow for embedded HTML objects. Essentially, if an attacker can intercept and modify a message in transit, he can insert code that sends the plaintext in a URL to a remote website. Very clever. The EFAIL … Read More “Details on a New PGP Vulnerability” »
cryptanalysis, cryptography, email, encryption, pgp, protocols, Security technology, vulnerabilities
EFF is reporting that a critical vulnerability has been discovered in PGP and S/MIME. No details have been published yet, but one of the researchers wrote: We’ll publish critical vulnerabilities in PGP/GPG and S/MIME email encryption on 2018-05-15 07:00 UTC. They might reveal the plaintext of encrypted emails, including encrypted emails sent in the past. … Read More “Critical PGP Vulnerability” »
backdoors, encryption, lawenforcement, police, Security technology
This article says that the Virginia Beach police are looking to buy encrypted radios. Virginia Beach police believe encryption will prevent criminals from listening to police communications. They said officer safety would increase and citizens would be better protected. Someone should ask them if they want those radios to have a backdoor. Powered by WPeMatico
backdoors, cryptography, cryptowars, encryption, keyescrow, lawenforcement, Security technology, securityengineering
Last month, Wired published a long article about Ray Ozzie and his supposed new scheme for adding a backdoor in encrypted devices. It’s a weird article. It paints Ozzie’s proposal as something that “attains the impossible” and “satisfies both law enforcement and privacy purists,” when (1) it’s barely a proposal, and (2) it’s essentially the … Read More “Ray Ozzie’s Encryption Backdoor” »
academicpapers, cryptanalysis, encryption, Security technology
Interesting symmetric cipher: LC4: Abstract: ElsieFour (LC4) is a low-tech cipher that can be computed by hand; but unlike many historical ciphers, LC4 is designed to be hard to break. LC4 is intended for encrypted communication between humans only, and therefore it encrypts and decrypts plaintexts and ciphertexts consisting only of the English letters A … Read More “LC4: Another Pen-and-Paper Cipher” »
authentication, encryption, internetofthings, Security technology
Researchers at Princeton University have released IoT Inspector, a tool that analyzes the security and privacy of IoT devices by examining the data they send across the Internet. They’ve already used the tool to study a bunch of different IoT devices. From their blog post: Finding #3: Many IoT Devices Contact a Large and Diverse … Read More “IoT Inspector Tool from Princeton” »
algorithms, backdoors, cryptanalysis, edwardsnowden, encryption, internetofthings, nsa, Security technology
The ISO has rejected two symmetric encryption algorithms: SIMON and SPECK. These algorithms were both designed by the NSA and made public in 2013. They are optimized for small and low-cost processors like IoT devices. The risk of using NSA-designed ciphers, of course, is that they include NSA-designed backdoors. Personally, I doubt that they’re backdoored. … Read More “Two NSA Algorithms Rejected by the ISO” »
encryption, Security technology, sports
Info on the coded signals used by the Colorado Rockies. Powered by WPeMatico