TrueCrypt Audit Team Creates Technical Advisory Board

As the TrueCrypt audit chugs along toward a deterministic, clean build of the open-source encryption software and a palatable license, the organizers have brought prominent security and legal experts aboard as a technical advisory team. The experts will not only provide guidance on the current...

NIST Reviews Crypto Standards Development

The National Institute for Standards and Technology has taken an important step toward repairing what the National Security Agency has allegedly fractured by initiating a review of its cryptographic standards development processes. NIST-sponsored algorithms are at the heart of numerous crypto...

kernel: ansi_cprng: off by one error in non-block size request

Off-by-one error in the getprngbytes function in crypto/ansicprng.c in the Linux kernel through 3.11.4 makes it easier for context-dependent attackers to defeat cryptographic protection mechanisms via multiple requests for small amounts of data, leading to improper management of the state of the...

Crypto Party, Anti-Surveillance Rally in DC

WASHINGTON — Saturday marked the 12-year anniversary of the initial signing of the controversial USA PATRIOT Act, the anti-terrorism bill signed into law shortly after the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, 2001, sections of which have allegedly given federal law enforcement the authority to...

PYSEC-2013-29

The Crypto.Random.atfork function in PyCrypto before 2.6.1 does not properly reseed the pseudo-random number generator PRNG before allowing a child process to access it, which makes it easier for context-dependent attackers to obtain sensitive information by leveraging a race condition in which a...

TrueCrypt Audit Endorsed by Development Team

UPDATE — The effort to audit TrueCrypt, the open source encryption tool, received an important endorsement in the last week when a member of its anonymous development team reached out to the organizers of IsTrueCryptAuditedYet? “He wrote us a friendly but formal letter stating that they were happ...

/Dev/Random PRNG in Linux Questioned

The sanctity of the dev/random random number generator used in the Linux kernel has been a hot-button issue for more than a month. A petition posted to change.org in September to remove RdRand from dev/random, for example, was met with fury from Linus Torvalds who called the developer who posted ...

WhatsApp Crypto Implementation Vulnerability Discovered

WhatsApp, a popular mobile message application, suffers from crypto implementation vulnerability that leaves messages exposed. Thijs Alkemade, a computer science student at Utrecht University in The Netherlands who works on the open source Adium instant messaging project, disclosed a serious issu...

OWASP ESAPI Security Advisory: MAC Bypass in ESAPI Symmetric Encryption

OWASP ESAPI for Java Security Advisory 1 The OWASP Foundation MAC Bypass in ESAPI Symmetric Encryption Summary ======= Category: Symmetric cryptography Module: ESAPI Encryptor interface Announced: 2013-08-23 via ESAPI-Dev mailing list...

Juniper Steel-Belted Radius Multiple OpenSSL Vulnerabilities

The version of Juniper Steel-Belted Radius software installed on the remote RedHat or CentOS host is affected by multiple OpenSSL vulnerabilities : - The SSL 3.0 implementation in OpenSSL does not properly initialize data structures for block cipher padding, which could allow remote attackers to...

In Wake of Latest Crypto Revelations, 'Everything is Suspect'

So now that RSA Security has urged developers to back away from the table and stop using the maligned Dual Elliptic Curve Deterministic Random Bit Generation Dual EC DRBG algorithm, the question begging to be asked is why did RSA use it in the first place? Going back to 2007 and a seminal...

On The Latest NSA Revelations, the Tor Botnet and Kimsuky

Dennis Fisher and Mike Mimoso talk about the news of the last couple of weeks, including the revelations of the NSA’s anti-cryptography capabilities, the botnet making use of Tor and the Kimsuky cyberespionage attack. Download: digitalunderground126.mp3...

Bitcoins - Secured by NSA designed Encryption or Backdoored ?

It’s been nearly three months since Edward Snowden started telling the world about the National Security Agency’s mass surveillance of global communications. After the last week report that the National Security Agency has leveraged its cooperative relationships with specific industry partners to...

DefCamp 2013 - International Hacking and Information Security Conference in Romania

The Fourth Edition of an International Information Security Conference hosted in Romania , The DefCamp 2013 is now open for Call for Papers. Over 300 Security experts, Researchers, and Enthusiasts from Romania and neighboring countries are expected to take part in the event in Bucharest, at the...

Bruce Schneier on the NSA, Cryptography and Trust

Dennis Fisher talks with cryptographer Bruce Schneier about the revelations of the NSA’s capabilities to subvert and weaken cryptographic algorithms, security products and standards, and what it will take to help defeat these capabilities. Download: digitalunderground125.mp3 Subscribe to the...

DefCamp 2013 - International Hacking and Information Security Conference in Romania

The Fourth Edition of an International Information Security Conference hosted in Romania , The DefCamp 2013 is now open for Call for Papers. Over 300 Security experts, Researchers, and Enthusiasts from Romania and neighboring countries are expected to take part in the event in Bucharest, at the...

Snowden-Leaked NSA Budget Shows Code-Breaking Investments

New documents leaked by Edward Snowden quantify the resources supporting an extensive intelligence community crypto-cracking program. Tens of thousands of people and billions of dollars are behind the Consolidated Cryptologic Program, as reported yesterday by The Washington Post. Signals...

Fedora Update for libtomcrypt FEDORA-2013-14488

Check for the Version of libtomcrypt OpenVAS Vulnerability Test Fedora Update for libtomcrypt FEDORA-2013-14488 Authors: System Generated Check Copyright: Copyright c 2013 Greenbone Networks GmbH, http://www.greenbone.net This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it und...

EUVD-2022-3062

Apache CXF 2.5.x before 2.5.10, 2.6.x before CXF 2.6.7, and 2.7.x before CXF 2.7.4 does not verify that a specified cryptographic algorithm is allowed by the WS-SecurityPolicy AlgorithmSuite definition before decrypting, which allows remote attackers to force CXF to use weaker cryptographic...

PT-2013-1808 · Apache · Apache Cxf

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: Apache CXF versions 2.5.x through 2.5.9 Apache CXF versions 2.6.x through 2.6.6 Apache CXF versions 2.7.x through 2.7.3 Description: The issue allows remote attackers to force the use of weaker cryptographic algorithms than intended, making i...