Tag: crypto
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Question: Should You Trust Tor?
Answer: Not if Your Life is at Stake By Bill Blunden, July 16, 2014 In the ongoing drizzle of Snowden revelations the public has witnessed a litany of calls for the widespread adoption of online anonymity tools. One such technology is Tor, which employs a network of Internet relays to hinder the process of attribution.…
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Cryptoparty Goes Viral: Pen testers, Privacy Geeks Spread Security to the Masses
Security professionals, geeks and hackers around the world are hosting a series of cryptography training sessions for the general public. The ‘crytoparty’ sessions were born in Australia and kicked off last week in Sydney and Canberra along with two in the US and Germany. Information security experts and privacy advocates of all political stripes have…
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RELEASED: Alan Turing Notes on Cryptography
Are there any insights left to be wrung from the code breaker’s papers? Chris Vallance of the BBC reports that GCHQ has released some of Alan Turing’s papers on the theory of code breaking. They’re not on display at the National Archives at Kew. I’ve checked the web pages of the Archives and GCHQ, and there is…
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How NSA access was built into Windows
Careless mistake reveals subversion of Windows by NSA? A CARELESS mistake by Microsoft programmers has revealed that special access codes prepared by the US National Security Agency have been secretly built into Windows. The NSA access system is built into every version of the Windows operating system now in use, except early releases of Windows…
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Namecoin – A DNS alternative based on Bitcoin
Namecoin is a domain name system based on Bitcoin. It extends Bitcoin to add transactions for registering, updating and transferring names. The idea behind this is to provide an alternative to the existing DNS system where names can be taken from their owners by groups that control the DNS servers. The project was originally announced…