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Ray Ozzie thinks he has an approach for accessing encrypted devices that attains the impossible: It satisfies both law enforcement and privacy purists. (?)

EFAIL furore not over yet, even though it´s easy to fix.

However, PGP´s creator Phil Zimmerman, Protonmail´s Any Yenn, Enigmail´s Patrick Brunschwig, and Mailvelope´s Thomas Oberndörfer are still concerned that misinformation about the bug remains in the wild.

Yenn tried to refute the EFAIL “don´t use PGP” on May 25, and the four have followed up with this joint post.

According to a Venafi survey of 512 security professionals attending RSA Conference 2018, sixty-four percent of respondents say their personal encryption usage has increased due to recent geopolitical changes.

Encryption is making it more difficult for law enforcement agencies to detect dangerous offenders, according the the National Crime Agency's (NCA) yearly assessment of serious organised crime in Britain.

Since 2010, communication service providers have migrated to encrypted services ´by default´, a process that accelerated following the Snowden disclosures, said the National Strategic Assessment of Serious and Organised Crime 2018

US lawmakers from both major political parties came together on Thursday to reintroduce a bill that, if passed, would prohibit the American government from forcing tech product makers to undermine the security of their wares.

The National Institute of Standards and Technology wants comments on the best way to design criteria to evaluate new encryption standards for small computing devices.

NIST will eventually ask researchers and cryptographers for algorithms that could be used to encrypt data on small, "constrained devices," such as sensors, RFID tags, industrial controllers and smart cards that are being incorporated into automobiles, internet-of-things devices, the smart grid and distributed control systems.

But first the agency needs to establish the requirements and evaluation criteria that will guide the review of the algorithms.

The vulnerability, called EFAIL, is exploitable against encrypted email, including previously transmitted mail, according to researchers.

Viz také komentáře:

• PGP and S/MIME decryptors can leak plaintext from emails, says infosec professor.
• PGP and EFAIL: Frequently Asked Questions.
• Details on a New PGP Vulnerability
• Efail: Was Sie jetzt beachten müssen, um sicher E-Mails zu lesen
• PGP und S/MIME: So funktioniert Efail

Mark Kaelin: Protecting customers´ personal data is vitally important to the future success of every organization. Encrypting that data with one of these apps is a good place to start.
Numerous high-profile events in 2017 and early 2018 have made it abundantly clear that all enterprises and government agencies are responsible and liable for the protection of personal data collected from customers and clients—no exceptions. New regulations, such as the GDPR, which goes into effect May 25, 2018, will back those expectations of protection with substantial penalties and fines for the noncompliance.
To avoid potential fines, organizations need to demonstrate initiative by establishing measurable security protocols that protect collected personal data. One of most common methods for protecting stored data is encryption.

Různé verze tabulky DEIN STAR, které byly používány agenty BND v NDR do roku 1989 lze vyhledat na tomto zajímavém webu.

In (In)secure Magazine Issue 27, March 2018.

Blockchain technology promises to solve many complex problems across different business sectors and industries, and Bitcoin is breaking value records seemingly every hour. But many don’t understand how the two really work, and use the two words interchangeably as if they were synonymous.
One important thing to remember is that blockchain can exist without Bitcoin, but Bitcoin cannot exist without a blockchain.
Bitcoin is a digital currency that was created in 2009. Only 21 million Bitcoins can ever be created (mined), and it is estimated that the last coin will be produced in 2140.
It is exchanged on a decentralized, peer-to-peer network, meaning that there is no central server or authority (i.e., a central bank) that regulates it. In the beginning, the Bitcoin network was operated by volunteers who had a full Bitcoin protocol stack installed on their private computers. However, the network’s operation has mostly been taken over by specialized data centers.
Bitcoin operates on a cryptographic protocol, is fully transparent and open source. As it’s not backed by a real authority, the health of the system depends entirely on the trust people have in it. The value of Bitcoin is determined by the amount people are willing to pay for it.

Google has announced the release of the 72-qubit square array Bristlecone quantum processor, which the company believes is adequate to demonstrate quantum supremacy.

Bristlecone is the evolution of Google´s prior 9-qubit linear quantum processor, which had error rates of 1% for readout, 0.1% for single-qubit gates, and 0.6% for two-qubit gates.

Four cryptography experts have backed a US Senator´s campaign to force the FBI to explain how exactly a Feds-only backdoor can be added to strong and secure encryption.

The four are: Stanford professor Martin Hellman, of Diffie-Hellman fame and who helped invent the foundations of today´s crypto systems; Columbia professor and USENET co-creator Steve Bellovin; top cryptographer Paul Kocher; and information security guru Bruce Schneier.

All four this week signed a letter (link in article) to Senator Ron Wyden (D-OR) applauding his "effort to find out with whom the bureau has been consulting and which cryptographic experts believe an exceptional access system can be built securely."

A report, conducted by the Quantum Safe Security Working Group (QSS WG) within the Cloud Security Alliance (CSA), looks to assess the overall awareness and understanding of quantum security risk and is part of the group's larger effort to develop a future framework for addressing quantum computing threats.

Cryptanalysis is the study of ciphertext, ciphers and cryptosystems with the aim of understanding how they work and finding and improving techniques for defeating or weakening them. For example, cryptanalysts seek to decrypt ciphertexts without knowledge of the plaintext source, encryption key or the algorithm used to encrypt it; cryptanalysts also target secure hashing, digital signatures and other cryptographic algorithms.

Description of cryptographic hashes and practical examples of how to calculate them.

Information security professionals are normally tasked with hunting threats that have been detected on their respective networks. What happens when you think that your network is under attack, but you’re not quite sure where the malware is or what they will do next? This article will detail how to threat hunt on your network by […]

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Introduction Demand for cybersecurity professionals is on the rise, and even specialized niche positions are seeing an increase in popularity. This makes threat hunting an especially sought-after job role, particularly in big corporations that are looking to identify and neutralize threats that are not easily detected by traditional security measures. This ensures that they keep […]

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