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February 06 2010

snej
18:24

Tahoe-LAFS

"A secure, decentralized, data store. This filesystem is encrypted and spread over multiple peers in such a way that it remains available even when some of the peers are unavailable, malfunctioning, or malicious." This is the software used by online backup service AllMyData.com. (GPL'ed)
Tags: security cryptography networks p2p privacy

March 23 2009

snej
16:22

PFX - How Not to Design a Crypto Protocol/Standard

“As it turns out, because PFX [aka PKCS12] is so comprehensively broken it's far easier to take the style guide's "try and do this to demonstrate good style" and turn it around into PFX's "do this to demonstrate bad style". As a result, I've decided to do a rant instead of a proper discussion like the style guide. Rants are far more fun to write anyway. So, here's the PFX anti-style guide, or 'How not to design a crypto protocol/standard'.”
Tags: cryptography protocols security

October 29 2008

snej
16:09

The Skein Hash Function [Schneier on Security]

Bruce Schneier announces the new crypto hash function he and others are submitting to the NIST competition. Full paper and source code available. "Skein is a new family of cryptographic hash functions. Its design combines speed, security, simplicity, and a great deal of flexibility in a modular package that is easy to analyze."
Tags: cryptography security news algorithm
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