China Walks Out of Encryption Meeting

An international dispute over a wireless computing standard took a bitter turn this past week with the Chinese delegation walking out of a global meeting to discuss the technology.

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China: U.S. Is in Wireless 'Conspiracy'

The agency promoting China's wireless encryption standard has accused a U.S. engineers' group of waging a conspiracy that led a global organization to reject the Chinese system, the country's official news agency said Monday.

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What are the RealDVD and Kaleidescape lawsuits really about? Who is suing them for their DVD ripping products? And what will the cases mean once they have finally been settled? There has been much confusion about these lawsuits. Here, we try to clarify them.

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Two people have been successfully prosecuted for refusing to provide authorities with their encryption keys, resulting in landmark convictions that may have carried jail sentences of up to five years. The government said today it does not know their fate.

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If you're of the mindset that what you do with your BitTorrent client is your business and not that of people snooping, sniffing, and prying at your packets along the way, ItsHidden offers free VPN server to anonymize your activity.

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Encrypts messages with a secret key and then distributes pieces of it across random nodes so that as peers leave the swarm it gradually degrades over time, allowing users to regain control over data stored on the web like Facebook PMs, e-mails to others, and even simple posts.

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The premise of what computer scientists call "fully homomorphic encryption," like many long-unsolved mathematical puzzles, sounds both simple and impossible: Can data be encrypted in a way that allows any calculation to be performed on the scrambled information without unscrambli …

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University of Ottawa law professor Michael Geist said the cost of the technology is not the only problem with such a bill — it could possibly hurt an industry whose legitimate customers also rely on mobile devices. *** Geist said there needs to be a balance between people's r …

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A federal judge has ordered a criminal defendant to decrypt his hard drive by typing in his PGP passphrase so prosecutors can view the unencrypted files, a ruling that raises serious concerns about self-incrimination in an electronic age.

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MARKETING men reckon the kerfuffle over Barack Obama's beloved BlackBerry has been worth something like $50m in free publicity to Research In Motion, the iconic smartphone's Canadian maker. Ironically, the president uses not a BlackBerry proper, but a Windows device ...

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The world's six largest computer drive makers today published the final specifications(download PDF) for a single, full-disk encryption standard that can be used across all hard disk drives, solid state drives (SSD) and encryption key management applications.

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Here's our list of the biggest security incidents involving the Internet's core routing protocol, the Border Gateway Protocol. Some of these incidents were attacks; others were accidental misconfigurations.

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A powerful digital certificate that can be used to forge the identity of any website on the internet is in the hands of in international band of security researchers, thanks to a sophisticated attack on the ailing MD5 hash algorithm, a slip-up by Verisign, and about 200 PlayStati …

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P2P file sharing is generating a lot of heat these days as countries introduce new copyright laws, stiffer sentencing for Internet pirates, and ISPs that restrict bandwidth for P2P file sharing programs.

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Seagate has introduced Momentus FDE self-encrypting hard drives to secure laptop data. Dell will be the first to ship a laptop with a Seagate 160GB Momentus FDE drive, and McAfee will provide software for enterprise-wide management.

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Academic researchers have found an exploitable hole in a popular form of wireless networking encryption. The hole is in a part of 802.11i that forms the basis of WiFi Protected Access (WPA), so it could affect routers worldwide.

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Security researchers say they've developed a way to partially crack the Wi-Fi Protected Access (WPA) encryption standard used to protect data on many wireless networks.

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Federal agents seeking to generate MD5 hashes from files on a suspect's hard drive must now obtain a warrant before doing so, says a Pennsylvania U.S.

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Last year one of the more troubling provisions of the UK's Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act (RIPA) finally came into effect.

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Researchers have created an optical network component that they say can encrypt data traveling at 100G bps (bits per second), far outpacing current electronic encryption technologies.

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Defendants can't deny police an encryption key because of fears the data it unlocks will incriminate them, a British appeals court has ruled.

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The Homeland Security Department has declared its right to seize laptops at the U.S. border indefinitely, but legislation introduced Thursday is intended to curb that power.

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One feature I've been looking forward to in Ubuntu 8.10 is the encrypted private directory. With this feature, you'll get a folder called Private in your home.

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Encryption scares a lot of people - me included - because it's based on really complicated mathematics.

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Because of their ability to represent multiple states simultaneously, quantum computers could theoretically factor numbers dramatically faster and with smaller computers than conventional computers. For this reason, they could vastly improve computer security.

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Complex computer encryption codes could be solved and new drug design developed significantly faster thanks to new research carried out by the University of Surrey.

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Google has plugged one of the biggest security risks associated with using its free hosted Gmail mail service, still in beta after four years. You can now select an option in your account preferences to make every session require an encrypted Web connection.

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