crypto
Data Hiding at the Airport
According to the EFF blog, customs has taken to randomly searching electronic devices for suspicious data. It is somewhat mysterious what they are searching them for — given only a few minutes and a technically unskilled border guard doing the searching, it’s hard to imagine them actually finding anything better hidden than a file on [...]
Whole-Disk Encryption Cracked
Early this week, some researchers at Princeton University’s Center for Information Technology Policy released a fascinating video of whole-disk encryption being cracked quite quickly and easily. Whole-disk encryption products — such as PGP Whole Disk Encryption, TrueCrypt System Encryption, and Windows Vista’s BitLocker — work by encrypting the entire hard disk with a symmetric key, [...]
Anonymity with TOR and its limits
The post at the Unwired Video Blog about TOR has been getting a lot of publicity, having been linked to by both Lifehacker and Boing Boing. It provides a quick overview of TOR, how it works, and how to use it to browse the Web anonymously. This is a good thing; people using services like [...]
Securing Data at Rest with Cryptography
Over at Schneier on Security, Bruce Schneier has a post today about securing data on disk. Encryption is often sold as a panacea for all security problems — which it’s not — but keeping people from reading your data if they steal your laptop is one thing encryption is really good at, and it’s an [...]
Why Hackers Love Wi-Fi
Hackers love wireless networking. At DefCon 15, it was easy to predict which sessions would have lines running out the door and require getting there well in advance for a seat – it was the sessions with “wireless” or “Wi-Fi” in the title. The Wireless Village was very popular, and many of the hacking contests [...]
