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Cryptography
a powerful means of restricting access to part or all of a Web site, whereby only a user with an assigned "key" can request and read the information
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Voice Encryption Specialist Cellcrypt Begins Rigorous US Security Certification Process
FIPS and Suite B cryptography to open up US government market LONDON -- British VoIP security specialist, Cellcrypt, has announced it has begun the rigorous process of Federal Information Processing Standards FIPS 140-2 to obtain Level 1 certification in the United States. The FIPS 140-2 government computer security...
Tags: certification, cryptography, Quality, SECURITY, U.S. Government, VoIP
Research articles 2008-08-21
Swedish researchers find hole in 'flawless' encryption technology
STOCKHOLM AFP — Quantum cryptography, a new technology until now considered 100 percent secure against attacks on sensitive data traffic, has a flaw after all, Swedish researchers said Friday. "In computer terms, we've found a bug," said Jan-Aake Larsson, an associate professor of applied mathematics at the Linkoeping University...
Tags: Agence France-Presse, cryptography, INTERNET, researcher, SECURITY
Research articles 2008-04-18
Modernization Closes The Interoperability Gap
Effort replaces old equipment, educates customers, promotes new standards. The U.S. military is moving its cryptographic capabilities into the 21st century with a major program to replace and upgrade legacy equipment and systems. The multiyear effort is introducing new algorithms designed to enhance interoperability and information sharing across...
Tags: algorithm, cryptography, Engineering, Government, interoperability, National Security Agency, SECURITY, technology
Research articles 2007-08-01
Speed boost helps quantum codes on their way.
Aug 29, 2006 (New Scientist - ABIX via COMTEX) -- The idea of using quantum physics to protect information is at last coming closer to reality. So far, quantum cryptography systems that generate keys for encoding and decoding information have been frustratingly, unviably slow. ...
Tags: cryptography, SECURITY, Stanford University
Research articles 2006-08-29
Inside the Mind Of an Inventor
Steve Wozniak who designed the Apple II computer, Dean Kamen who built the Segway personal transporter and Jay Walker (who devised the name-your-price business model of Priceline.com) are among the inventors profiled in Evan I. Schwartz's new book, "Juice: The Creative Fuel That Drives World-Class Inventors." Schwartz, whose last book...
Tags: car, computer, cryptography, juice, Newsweek, PRODUCTIVITY, SECURITY, Segway, Transportation
Research articles 2004-10-25
Quantum Cryptography Advance.
M2 PRESSWIRE-3 May 2004-NIST: Quantum Cryptography AdvanceC1994-2004 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:05032004 The fastest known cryptographic system based on transmission of single photons -- the smallest pulses of light -- has been demonstrated by a team at the National Institute of Standards...
Tags: cryptography, NIST, Quantum Corp.
Research articles 2004-05-03
TURING - THE NOVEL
TURING - THE NOVEL Papadimitriou, Christos H. Turing A Novel about Computation. The MIT Press, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge MA 02142 USA. 2003, 284 pp. $24.95.Our hero is Turing, an interactive tutoring program and namesake (or virtual emanation?) of Alan Turing, World War II code breaker and father of...
Tags: cryptography, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, novel, PRODUCTIVITY, SECURITY
Research articles 2004-04-01
A COMPARISON OF CRYPTOGRAPHY COURSES
ABSTRACT: The author taught two courses on cryptography, one at Duke University aimed at non-mathematics majors and one at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology aimed at mathematics and computer science majors. Both tried to incorporate technical and societal aspects of cryptography, with varying emphases. This paper will discuss the strengths and...
Tags: Alice, computer, cryptography, Duke University, mathematics, Mathematics, SECURITY, Technology
Research articles 2004-04-01
BBN Technologies Smashes Speed Barriers with Worlds' Fastest Detector for Practical Quantum Cryptography; New Technology Enables Faster, Super Secure Communications over Greater Distances
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- BBN Technologies, an advanced technology and research and development firm, today announced a significant breakthrough in the world's first quantum cryptography network. In close collaboration with the National Institute of Standards and Technology NIST in Boulder CO, BBN has successfully demonstrated a single-photon detector designed for standard...
Tags: barrier, cryptography, Quantum Corp.
Research articles 2006-02-23
Cole, Eric. .(Book Review)
Indianapolis: Wiley, 2003. ISBN: 0-471-44449-9 Security expert Cole, who spent 5 years working for the CIA, is currently Chief Scientist for The Sytex Group's Information Warfare Center. His book not only explains steganography, cryptography, and digital watermarking, it offers approximately 80 pages...
Tags: CIA, cryptography, Indianapolis, SECURITY
Research articles 2003-10-01
Practical Cryptography.(Book Review)
By Nick Ferguson and Bruce Schneier; published by John Wiley and Sons, 877/76)-2974 phone, 800/597-3299 fax, www.wiley.com Web; 432 pages; $50. As Mark Twain acidulously remarked, "A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read." Bruce Schneier's...
Tags: cryptography, Fax, John Wiley & Sons Inc., SECURITY
Research articles 2003-09-01
Macadamian Technologies Announces Partnership with University of Ottawa to Build Software Infrastructure for Bioinformatics and Cryptography Grid Computing Lab.
OTTAWA, ONTARIO, CANADA, May 29, 2003 CCNMatthews via COMTEX Macadamian Technologies, Inc., a software engineering firm that focuses on emerging technologies, announced today that it was chosen to help build a grid computing infrastructure for the bioinformatics, coding, cryptology, and combinatorial algorithms lab at...
Tags: bioinformatics, cryptography, HEALTHCARE, NETWORKING, partnership, software, University of Ottawa
Research articles 2003-05-29
Liquid Machines Announces Availability of FIPS 140-2 Validated Cryptography for Public Sector Organizations
Liquid Machines, Inc., the leader in Enterprise Rights Management ERM solutions, today announced that its Liquid Machines Document ControlTM software uses an embedded FIPS 140-2 validated cryptography module, meeting the requirements defined by the National Institute of Standards and Technology's NIST Federal Information Processing Standard FIPS 140-2 regulation. FIPS...
Tags: cryptography, NIST, public sector
Research articles 2007-06-04
Keeping secrets
In the summer of 2002, a group of 31,252 computer enthusiasts (aka, computer geeks) completed a quest that had occupied them for almost five years. Their actual labor was small, considering that their computers did most of the work, but theirs was a true labor of love because their reward...
Tags: Caesar, computer, cryptography, DES, Government, National Security Agency, SECURITY
Research articles 2003-04-01
nCipher first company to be awarded FIPS 140-2 certification for Hardware Security Modules; nCipher's nShield, payShield and nForce range of hardware cryptography products first to be awarded new US NIST certification.
M2 PRESSWIRE-24 March 2003-NCIPHER: nCipher first company to be awarded FIPS 140-2 certification for Hardware Security Modules; nCipher's nShield, payShield and nForce range of hardware cryptography products first to be awarded new US NIST certificationC1994-2003 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:03242003 Cambridge,...
Tags: certification, cryptography, hardware, nCipher Corp., NIST, Quality, SECURITY
Research articles 2003-03-24
Here's what you need to know to protect SCADA systems from cyber-attack
The first step in protecting a pipeline or distribution system SCADA system is to recognize that there are possible threats against such systems. These risks include risks of a physical attack, a cyber-attack. and even risks in the event that there is no attack at all. This brief discussion focuses...
Tags: American Gas Association, cryptography, cyberattack, SCADA, SOFTWARE
Research articles 2003-02-01
Forever secret; Non-quantum cryptography; Hyper-encryption.(Science and Technology)(Brief Article)
EXPLOITING the quirks of quantum theory see article may not be the only way to create unbreakable codes. Michael Rabin and Yan Zong Ding, of Harvard University, think they can do much the same thing by overwhelming any eavesdropper with data. Dr Rabin's scheme,...
Tags: cryptography, Government, Harvard University, SECURITY
Research articles 2001-06-23
Saving privacy in the digital age
SAVING PRIVACY IN THE DIGITAL AGE Crypto: When the Code Rebels Beat the Government - Saving Privacy in the Digital Age. Viking Penguin, New York NY 10014 USA. 2001. 356 pp. $25.95. In a narrative of the past 30 years, Levy describes the struggle between visionaries seeking to move cryptography...
Tags: cryptography, National Security Agency, privacy, SECURITY
Research articles 2001-04-01
NEC Succeeds in World's Fastest Continuous Quantum Cryptography Key
Tokyo, June 1, 2005 - JCNN - NEC (TSE: 6701) announced on May 31 that the company has achieved a fortnight-long, continuous quantum cryptography final-key generation speed of 13Kbps over a 16.3km-long commercial access optical network, in collaboration with the National Institute of Information and Communications Technology NICT and telecom...
Tags: cryptography, NEC Corp., Quantum Corp.
Research articles 2005-06-01
COMMERCE DEPARTMENT ANNOUNCES WINNER OF GLOBAL INFORMATION SECURITY COMPETITION.(Technology Information)
A worldwide competition to develop a new encryption technique that can be used to protect computerized information ended today when Secretary of Commerce Norman Y. Mineta announced the nation's proposed new Advanced Encryption Standard. Mineta named the Rijndael (pronounced Rhine-doll) data encryption formula...
Tags: AES, algorithm, computer, cryptography, NETWORKING, NIST, PRODUCTIVITY, SECURITY, U.S. Department of Commerce
Research articles 2000-10-09
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