Internet webcam signals from webcams could emerge as an
exotic but effective new tool for securing terrestrial
communications against eavesdropping.
Scientists have come up with a method for encrypting
messages using the internet objects, which emit signals
and are thought to be powered by DC
Gutterman, Pinkas, and Reinman have produced a nice as-built-specification and
analysis of the Linux random number generator.
From http://eprint.iacr.org/2006/086.pdf:
Following our analysis of the LRNG, we suggest the following recommendations
for the design of pseudo-random number
From:
http://mathworld.wolfram.com/news/2005-11-08/rsa-640
November 8, 2005--A team at the German Federal Agency
for Information Technology Security (BSI) recently
announced the factorization of the 193-digit number
310 7418240490 0437213507 5003588856 7930037346
Credit bureaus to adopt data protection standard
By Reuters
http://news.com.com/Credit+bureaus+to+adopt+data+protection+standard/210
0-1029_3-5877870.html
Story last modified Thu Sep 22 21:58:00 PDT 2005
The top three U.S. credit reporting companies said on Thursday they
would adopt a
From:
www.newscientist.com/channel/info-tech/mg18625054.000
ATTEMPTS to build quantum computers could run up
against a fundamental limit on how long useful
information can persist inside them. Exceed the
limit and information could just leak away,
making computation
From
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/06/08/AR20050
60802335_pf.html:
You can always get a new Social Security number, but
you certainly can't get a new thumbprint..., Lee [of
EFF] said...Robinson, of BioPay, argues that a personal
check written at a grocery
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Peter Gutmann
Sent: Tuesday, May 31, 2005 1:29 PM
In this situation, I believe that the users, through hard won
experience with computers, _correctly_ assumed this was a
false positive.
Probably not.
[SNIP text on user's
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of James A. Donald
Sent: Saturday, May 28, 2005 1:48 PM
With bank web sites, experience has shown that only 0.3% of
users are deterred by an invalid certificate, probably
because very few users have any idea what a certificate
