Cryptography researches Andrey Bogdanov (K.U.Leuven — Katholieke Universiteit Leuven), Dmitry Khovratovich, (Microsoft Research) and Christian Rechberger (ENS Paris) managed to find a weakness in AES encryption that now makes the security protocol 4x easier/faster to crack. The crack has already been seen and confirmed by AES creators Dr Joan Daemen and Professor Dr Vincent Rijmen. Seeing as how AES-128 specifically is one of the more widely used, secure systems the...
Hoard water, beef jerky, and batteries for Apple’s hardware-based iPhone encryption has been cracked! (Sounds like a CNN title, eh?) In reality, the threat isn’t quite as bad as it initially sounds. For starters, the company responsible for the discovery, ElcomSoft, says that only the backups of iPhones are retrievable. Add to that the fact that you’ll need to have physical access to the iPhone you’re trying to actually trying to break in to adds...
If you thought RIM was going to cave to foreign countries’ demands to weaken the security of the BlackBerry platform, you were sorely mistaken. RIM’s response is actually quite refreshing (and comical) in an age where big business and government politics are trumping individual freedoms and privacy left and right. Specifically, when questioned about the recent BlackBerry bans spreading around the Middle East, Mike Lazaridis, RIM’s co-CEO had a few choice...
Well, this could be seen as a potential problem… RSA encryption has been cracked — 1024-bit encryption to be more precise. If you’re wondering who had the time and money to put together the necessary machinery to trim a several hundred year job (at best) down to a few months? It’s not quite as simple as you’d think. The more common way of breaking such security is by brute force. But the brute force needed to crack 1024 the...
Not more than 8-10 hours ago we highlighted a developing story concerning the US Military’s use of unencrypted feeds on unmanned drones. Wouldn’t you know it, the situation is a bit hairier and scarier than that. Unfortunately for us, the US has built the satellite technology used in the current crop of unencrypted drones to all corners of the militaries various aircraft. Oh god. And now a quote from Wired after conversation between them and US Military...
