Google has added a licensing server to the Android Marketplace which will allow an app to verify whether the user has purchased it or not before opening.

www.topix.net | 7/30/10 6:59 AM

Black Hat Independent researchers have made good on a promise to release a comprehensive set of tools needed to eavesdrop on cell phone calls that use the world's most widely deployed mobile technology.

www.topix.net | 7/29/10 1:21 PM

NTT and Mitsubishi Electric have announced an advanced encryption technique that should address cloud computing security issues.

www.topix.net | 7/28/10 9:32 PM

Hi everyone, Bryan here. If you're at Black Hat this week, I'll be giving a talk Thursday afternoon on the topic of cryptographic agility the ability for applications to change which cryptographic algorithms or implementations they use without having to make changes to the source code.

www.topix.net | 7/28/10 12:34 AM

A quantum particle is hard to grasp, because one cannot determine all its properties precisely at the same time.

www.topix.net | 7/27/10 3:05 PM

A research group led by computer scientists at the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science has proved that cryptography - the practice and study of hiding information - that is based solely on physical location is possible by using quantum mechanics.

www.topix.net | 7/27/10 2:57 AM

Posts Export Abstract From the Book: I have written this book partly to correct a mistake.

www.topix.net | 7/25/10 3:39 PM

Ever considered the thought that the U.S. government, such as the NSA, has the capability to break in to an SSL-encrypted session between you and your bank, and eavesdrop on that conversation? That idea alone should cause you to pause the next time you see the padlock icon in your browser light-up when you think you are browsing securely.

www.topix.net | 7/25/10 9:35 AM

IN the interest of a full disclosure, it's probably best to say that I've had a crush on Scarlett Thomas since I first read PopCo .

www.topix.net | 7/25/10 5:21 AM

The story of Bletchley Park is emblematic of the bumbling but occasionally brilliant way that the British conducted themselves in the Second World War.

www.topix.net | 7/23/10 7:00 AM

Posts Export Abstract This text unifies the concepts of information, codes and cryptography as first studied by Shannon in his seminal papers on communication and secrecy systems.

www.topix.net | 7/22/10 11:41 PM

There's no shortage of scientists waiting to get their hands on quantum computers.

www.topix.net | 7/21/10 8:38 PM

Will ubiquitous encryption of important network traffic ever happen? A group of researchers presenting at next month's Usenix Security Symposium will talk about a technology they say could make end-to-end encryption of TCP traffic the default, not the exception.

www.topix.net | 7/20/10 11:14 AM

Nearly nine years after the publication of FIPS 197, AES encryption remains the de facto standard today for symmetric encryption, and brute-force attacks remain infeasible, at least for the foreseeable future.

www.topix.net | 7/20/10 7:05 AM

All about SSL certificates and how they can be used to secure your website and ensure that your customers data is not displayed during transmission.

www.topix.net | 7/20/10 2:45 AM

Pankaj Rohatgi, Cryptography Research 5/18/2010 7:59 PM EDT Overview Recent advances in the size and performance of FPGAs, coupled with advantages in time-to-market, field-reconfigurability and lower up-front costs, make FPGAs ideally suited to a wide range of commercial and defense applications [6]. In addition, FPGAs generality and ...

www.topix.net | 7/19/10 10:47 PM

Is this a record for the longest Bruce has been "behind the times?" This has been reported *everywhere* for ages... Even I had it 10 days ago! http://www.itwire.com/business-it-news/security/... Posted by: David at My favorite attacker's method.

www.topix.net | 7/19/10 6:31 PM

Cryptography expert Bruce Schneier used to write his passwords down on a slip of paper and keep it in his wallet.

www.topix.net | 7/15/10 6:24 PM

Unless someone derives a way of factorizing large numbers quickly, this should be cryptographically secure.

www.topix.net | 7/14/10 6:02 AM

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www.topix.net | 7/14/10 1:51 AM

Materials Today , Vol. 8, No. 7. , pp. 23-23. Posts Export Abstract In a sign that quantum cryptography is moving out of the lab and into the marketplace, four companies recently demonstrated systems for secure transmission of data to banks in London's financial district, the City.

www.topix.net | 7/14/10 1:51 AM

Rick Rashid, senior vice president of Microsoft Research, and Tony Hey, corporate vice president of the External Research division of Microsoft Research, join recipients of the 2010 Microsoft Research Faculty Fellows awards.

www.topix.net | 7/13/10 10:41 PM

A new source of entangled photons twenty times brighter than all existing systems has been developed by a team from the Laboratoire de Photonique et de Nano-structures of CNRS.

www.topix.net | 7/11/10 2:45 PM

TeX Posts Export Abstract RSA-FDH and many other schemes provably secure in the Random-Oracle Model require a cryptographic hash function whose output size does not match any of the standard hash functions.

www.topix.net | 7/10/10 3:37 PM

This module implements a PEP-302-compatible import hook for verifying Python modules before they are loaded, by means of cryptographically-signed hashes.

www.topix.net | 7/10/10 11:23 AM

And you thought Michael Jackson was dangerous? Check out what we did this week. We found - and you figured out - a ciphertext in U.S. Cyber Command's logo .

www.topix.net | 7/10/10 7:18 AM

On Fri, Jul 9, 2010 at 02:44, jmmckee wrote: BEGIN RSA PRIVATE KEY END RSA PRIVATE KEY I was a bit concerned about the PRIVATE part.

www.topix.net | 7/10/10 3:14 AM

Cryptoanalysts have published what they claim is the secret recipe behind a Skype encryption algorithm.

www.topix.net | 7/9/10 10:59 PM

Disturbing forecasts that the world might end in two years have been discovered on the fingernails of troubled actress Lindsay Lohan.

www.topix.net | 7/9/10 7:00 PM

At the very heart of applications such as quantum cryptography, computation and teleportation lies a fascinating phenomenon known as "entanglement". Two photons are entangled if the properties of one depend on those of the other, whatever the distance separating them.

www.topix.net | 7/9/10 2:35 PM

NetLogic Microsystems announced a Linux-based hardware/software development kit it says is the first fully deterministic networking solution that concurrently processes Layers 2-7 at 40Gbps wire-speed. The NLX321103A solution combines the MIPS-based XLP832 eight-core, 32-threaded system-on-chip with the NL11k and NETL7 Layer 7 "knowledge-based" ...

www.topix.net | 7/8/10 10:56 PM

Implementing a simplified version of the DES block cipher algorithm a 'which was the standard encryption algorithm before the AES using C# to encryption and decryption binary files Introduction The Data Encryption Standard is a block cipher that was selected by the National Bureau of Standards as an official Federal Information Processing Standard ...

www.topix.net | 7/6/10 12:47 PM

Stumbling back through articles in Slashdot, I found a pretty nifty article on one of my favorite subjects: historical cryptography.

www.topix.net | 7/6/10 7:42 AM

One of the widely accepted properties of quantum entanglement is secrecy. Since scientists and researchers began working with quantum key distribution, entanglement has been considered an essential part of keeping communications private.

www.topix.net | 7/5/10 4:59 PM

July 5, 2010 -- IP Cores, Inc. has shipped first member of its new high-speed lossless data compression / encryption IP core family.

www.topix.net | 7/5/10 1:49 PM

But now, thanks to the efforts of Chaocipher fan Moshe Rubin and the generous gift of Byrne's cryptographic effects by his daughter-in-law Pat Byrne to the National Cryptologic Museum, the secrets of the Chaocipher are finally starting to be revealed - it's a great story.

www.topix.net | 7/4/10 8:37 AM

Message encryption is the process of converting a message into an undecipherable form so that only the person who it is intended for can read it.

www.topix.net | 7/3/10 9:13 PM

While each system has its proponents and opponents, both methods have advantages and disadvantages which are outlined below: Symmetric Key Encryption Symmetric key encryption is also known as shared-key, single-key, secret-key, and private-key or one-key encryption.

www.topix.net | 7/3/10 3:10 AM

Public key message encryption is also known as public key cryptography or asymmetric encryption.

www.topix.net | 7/2/10 10:55 PM

The MAXQ1004 from Maxim Integrated Products is a low-power 16-bit microcontroller that can add secure authentication to any application.

www.topix.net | 7/2/10 6:56 PM

For a while now, I've pointed out that cryptography is singularly ill-suited to solve the major network security problems of today: denial-of-service attacks, website defacement, theft of credit card numbers, identity theft, viruses and worms, DNS attacks, network penetration, and so on.

www.topix.net | 7/1/10 3:18 AM

You might have heard of subliminal messages embedded in rock albums, but what about in works of philosophy? Writing for the Daily Mail, David Derbyshire reports that Manchester University professor Dr Jay Kennedy has discovered a series of hidden messages in the writings of the Greek philosopher Plato, whose work in metaphysics and epistemology ...

www.topix.net | 6/30/10 7:59 PM

Digital certificates were originally designed to help authenticate, provide non-repudiation , and to sometimes ensure integrity and confidentiality for written communication on computer networks.

www.topix.net | 6/30/10 7:29 AM

An insecurity study into the use of SSL certificates has revealed that it is about as effective as an English team preventing a German striker from getting a ball in the back of the net.

www.topix.net | 6/30/10 1:14 AM

CRWE Wallstreet is pleased to announce the following news about Exar Corporation FREMONT, Calif.

www.topix.net | 6/29/10 9:10 PM

The Bulgarian National Revenue Agency is faced with an unprecedented number of tax evasion incidents involving tampered cash registers.

www.topix.net | 6/29/10 5:01 PM