IBM’s Nathan Harrington has written an article outlining how to use the GnuPGP Firefox extension to create encrypted events within Google Calendar. This isn’t just accessing Google Calendar securely, but rather encrypting event details locally before passing that text on to Google Calendar. Anyone who compromises your Google account then would know the time of…
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The other day, Bruce Schneier had some post about securing data for border crossings and in the comments someone asked why not just use TrueCrypt’s deniable file system, which in TrueCrypt’s implementation hides an encrypted file system within a TrueCrypt encrypted volume. Schneier responded that he didn’t trust TrueCrypt’s deniable file system, and today he…
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A new version of everyone’s favorite open source disk encryption software, TrueCrypt, has just been released. Version 6.0 has been optimized for mulit-core processors and includes a number of new features including the ability to use hidden volumes under OS X/Linux.
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FireGPG is a GPLed Firefox extension that allows users to encrypt, decrypt, sign or verify the signature of text in any web page. The latest version, released in January 2008, includes a FireGPG API so it could be integrated into specific website (the developers’ focus is on web-based mail).
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I’m a big fan and regular user of TrueCrypt, a completely free and open source program that creates virtual encrypted disks on Windows and Linux volumes. Like a lot of other such programs, however, mounting the encrypted volumes can get a bit tedious. AllThingsMarked.Com has a nice tutorial on how to create a batch script…
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Kent Boklan has a lengthy, fascinating account of purchasing a coded Confederate Army document at auction and then proceeding to decipher the message contained therein.
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TrueCrypt is a free, open source tool for creating encrypted hard drive partitions as well as virtual encrypted disks. The cool thing about TrueCrypt is it offers tons of options that let you choose your level of paranoia. For example, for the really paranoid, TrueCrypt can create a hidden volume inside an encrypted volume, so…
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After the terrorist attack on the United States, politicians and security experts are emerging from the woodwork to essentially revive the Clipper chip initiative. All cryptographic systems, these folks claim, should have built-in backdoors which government authorities could use to decrypt messages if need be. Aside from the civil liberties issues, the main problem is…
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ZDNet reports that some members of Congress want a worldwide ban on “uncrackable” computer encryption in the wake of the terrorist attacks on the United States. First, no existing system of computer encryption is uncrackable. Very difficult to crack if implemented correctly, but not uncrackable. Even systems using what should be an uncrackable scheme —…
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Last week, in an action instigated by Adobe, the Federal Bureau of Investigation arrested Russian programmer Dmitri Skylarov. Skylarov is accused of violating the Digital Millenium Copyright Act. Basically, Adobe has a copyprotection scheme which encrypts PDF files. The system has a number of weaknesses, however, and Sklarov wrote a program that can quickly remove…