Homomorphic Encryption Breakthrough Last month, IBM made some pretty brash claims about homomorphic encryption and the future of security. I hate to be the one to throw cold water on the whole thing—as cool as the new discovery is—but it’s important to separate the theoretical from the practical. Homomorphic cryptosystems are ones where mathematical operations on the ciphertext have regular effect
U.S. Government Contractor Injects Malicious Software into Critical Military Computers This is just a frightening story. Basically, a contractor with a top secret security clearance was able to inject malicious code and sabotage computers used to track Navy submarines. Yeah, it was annoying to find and fix the problem, but hang on. How is it possible for a single disgruntled idiot to damage a mult
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DRM in Windows Vista Windows Vista includes an array of “features” that you don’t want. These features will make your computer less reliable and less secure. They’ll make your computer less stable and run slower. They will cause technical support problems. They may even require you to upgrade some of your peripheral hardware and existing software. And these features won’t do anything useful. In fa
Choosing Secure Passwords Ever since I wrote about the 34,000 MySpace passwords I analyzed, people have been asking how to choose secure passwords. My piece aside, there’s been a lot written on this topic over the years—both serious and humorous—but most of it seems to be based on anecdotal suggestions rather than actual analytic evidence. What follows is some serious advice. The attack I’m evalua
Only 0.34 percent of users have the user name portion of their e-mail address as their password. Common Passwords: The top 20 passwords are (in order): password1, abc123, myspace1, password, blink182, qwerty1, fuckyou, 123abc, baseball1, football1, 123456, soccer, monkey1, liverpool1, princess1, jordan23, slipknot1, superman1, iloveyou1 and monkey. (Different analysis here.) The most common passwo
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