Welcome to another edition of our Weekly Rewind – where we summarize all our posts from the last week. The top stories this week were 3) “Free Stanford Crypto Course Beginning in January”, 2) “ShmooCon FireTalks Sponsor / CFP Updates…
Tag: encryption
The Basics – Encoding, Encryption, and Hashing
I have been meaning to document the concepts of encoding, encryption, and hashing for reference purposes but as usual came across a post that already explains them well. Here’s a consolidated quick reference version of that post from DanielMiessler.com. Encoding:…
Weekly Rewind – ShmooCon, Homomorphic Encryption, ShmooCon Update & More…
Welcome to another edition of our Weekly Rewind – where we summarize all our posts from the last week. The top stories this week were 3) “ShmooCon 2014 Firetalks Update, Con Line-Up & Shmooze-a-Student”, 2) “What is Homomorphic Encryption?”, and…
What Is Homomorphic Encryption?
I was listening to an older episode of Risky Biz (282) where they were discussing the concept of homomorphic encryption and how it can be applied to secure cloud computing. Basically, this type of operation involves performing computing operations on…
When Quantum Cryptography Isn’t Cryptography
by Hal F. A research company recently built a secure enterprise network using quantum key distribution. This “quantum encrypted” network is presented as entirely new, but it’s not. DARPA has funded a functioning quantum encrypted research network and demonstration systems…
Apple iOS Backdoor … Or Just Occam’s Razor?
In response to a discussion on Twitter the other day as well as our prior post on Apple’s iOS backdoor, David “@darthnull” Schuetz … yeah the BlueToad-gate guy … has written up a great post describing his point of view…
Weekly Rewind – SpeedTest.net, Encrypting Tweets, ShmooCon FireTalks & More…
Welcome to another edition of our Weekly Rewind – where we summarize all our posts from the last week. The top stories this week were 3) “The Final Four…of the ShmooCon FireTalks”, 2) “Encrypting Tweets for Your Fun and Not…
Encrypting Tweets for Your Fun and Not Their Profit – Part II
In part I of this topic we introduced the concept of encrypting your tweets and mentioned the possibility that an easy-to-use Twitter encryption system could impact their revenue model. Of course this isn’t going to happen as in general people…
Encrypting Tweets for Your Fun & Not Their Profit
This morning Mikko “@mikko” Hypponen put out an encrypted tweet with the message indicating that you needed a TS/SCI with Poly clearance to read it. Dan “@dakami” Kaminsky followed up with the idea of possibly creating an encrypted tweet mechanism.…
NASA, FDE Weaknesses, & Our Reactive Society
You may have read about the recent NASA fail several days ago where a thief stole an unencrypted laptop containing PII for over 10,000 workers. Now in a traditional reactive approach, officials are rushing to ensure full disk encryption (FDE)…