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- Electronics projects to make you sit up and take notice.
During my daily morning mainline injection of news on the Net this week, a couple of electronics projects caught my eye that I hadn't seen before. The first is a project f
- Practical whole disk encryption, or, how to frustrate data forensics.
When you get right down to it, the best way for an attacker to get hold of your data is to shut the box down, pull the drive, and rip a sector-by-sector image to analyze o
- WPA/TKIP partially broken?
Just when you thought it was safe to raise an antenna and go wireless again, along comes another attack to make you think twice. A pair of security researchers, Erik Tews
- Maybe I should write about things other than myself for a while.
If you're involved in the retrocomputing or PC history scenes, chances are you've heard of double-sided floppy disks that are formatted for one system on side A and anothe
- The Last HOPE.
I arrived in New York City somewhen around 1400 EST5EDT, after getting turned around in Penn Station (what kind of adventure would it be without my getting lost, after all
- FIXED - Truecrypt v6.0a released.
I'm well over a week late with this post, but better late than never. The Truecrypt Foundation announced on 8 July 2008 that v6.0a of Truecrypt, the cross-platform disk en
- Cutting the power doesn't necessarily mean that memory is cleared.
It has long been a piece of grassroots wisdom that when the power to your computer goes dead, you're up a certain creek without a means of propulsion: Whatever you were do
- Federal judge decrees that divulging your PGP passphrase violates the fifth amendment.
I can't say that I'm wild about the circumstances behind this (in fact, it's taken two days to calm down sufficiently to write about it without ranting), but the ramificat
- Situation report from Austin, Texas.
Things have finally slowed down somewhat in Austin, affording me the opportunity to write a long-overdue update. Workdays have been long (averaging thirteen hours out of e
- Serious vulnerability found in elliptic curve PRNG - cryptographers freak out.
A major component of cryptographic systems are pseudorandom number generators used to pull values out of thin air for the purposes of generating session keys and the bignu
- Hushmail rolls over on some of its users.
For years, the webmail service provided by Hushmail has been an example of weak anonymity and privacy: They don't ask for much to set up an account, they will happily auto
- Shell script: truecrypt-1.0.sh
To scratch a frequently encountered itch, namely mounting and unmounting Truecrypt volumes on USB keys and external drives on a number of systems in a day, I wrote a shell
- First weekend update in a while.
For the past couple of weeks, my weekends have been busy enough that there hasn't been much of interest to write about. Not that they weren't interesting interesting, but
- Cryptographic history hit-and-run.
Someone in Italy has a real German Enigma machine from World War II up for auction on eBay. The Enigma machines were the mechanism used to implement the famous cryptosyste
- The Voynich Manuscript is now on Flickr.
Depending on whom you talk to, the Voynich Manuscript is either one of the strangest books on the face of the planet, the key to the secrets of the universe, an elaborate
- Tor has been accepted as a Google Summer of Code project!
Tor, The Onion Router is a well-known net.privacy project that has been the subject of a grassroots development project for a couple of years now. The EFF has made room fo
- How the mighty have fallen!
The encryption algorithms for Blu-Ray and HD-DVD content have been cracked! The processing key is one of the keys used in the process of generating the media key, the uniq
- Windows Vista DRM cracked!
Technically, Microsoft Windows Vista hasn't even been released yet and the DRM system has been cracked. DRM, the so-called Digital Rights Management system that the MPAA a
- Random knowledge II.
If you turn on the Xscreensaver module called Sonar while you're running a packet monitoring application (such as TCPdump), people are less likely to think you're doing an
- Blu-Ray DVD copy protection cracked!
First HD DVDs were cracked; now Muslix64 has gone for an encore and cracked the protection on Blu-Ray DVD's so that they can be ripped in unencrypted form. It seems that h
- Confiscation of laptops entering the United States.
Just when you thought travelling by air couldn't get any more harrowing, along comes confiscation of laptop computers when re-entering the United States. Some are never se
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