Martin Hellman on Soaring, Nuclear Weapons and Cryptography

Martin Hellman, the co-inventor of public key cryptography, uses his background in security and cryptography to bring insights to two seemingly unrelated issues: nuclear weapons and soaring...

Nate Lawson: Crypto Strikes Back!

This Google Tech Talk features researcher Nate Lawson discussing recent vulnerabilities in crypto libraries, why public key cryptography is like a Ford Pinto in a demolition derby and the password-hashing mess created by Web 2.0 sites...

Google Internet Summit 2009: Security Session

Whitfield Diffie, the inventor of public-key cryptography, moderates a panel of security experts, including Howard Schmidt, Steve Crocker, Chris DiBona and Eric Grosse, discussing a variety of security topics...

[SECURITY] Fedora 11 Update: openswan-2.6.21-5.fc11

Openswan is a free implementation of IPsec & IKE for Linux. IPsec is the Internet Protocol Security and uses strong cryptography to provide both authentication and encryption services. These services allow you to build secure tunnels through untrusted networks. Everything passing through the...

[SECURITY] Fedora 10 Update: openswan-2.6.21-2.fc10

Openswan is a free implementation of IPsec & IKE for Linux. IPsec is the Internet Protocol Security and uses strong cryptography to provide both authentication and encryption services. These services allow you to build secure tunnels through untrusted networks. Everything passing through the...

New AES Attack, 200-Year-Old Cipher Key Big Week in Crypto

It’s been quite a week in the world of cryptography. For a field in which advancements are measured in the smallest of terms and major breakthroughs can take decades, the three big news stories involving cryptography in the last few days comprise an epochal event. Perhaps the most interesting of...

FreeBSD Security Advisory (FreeBSD-SA-09:11.ntpd.asc)

The remote host is missing an update to the system as announced in the referenced advisory FreeBSD-SA-09:11.ntpd.asc ADV FreeBSD-SA-09:11.ntpd.asc OpenVAS Vulnerability Test $ Description: Auto generated from ADV FreeBSD-SA-09:11.ntpd.asc Authors: Thomas Reinke Copyright: Copyright c 2009 E-Soft...

Crypto flaws becoming a killer for Web applications

One of the few things that most people in the security community seem to agree on is that there is a dire need for better security around Web applications. That need begins with the lack of security training for most Web developers and extends through the inconsistent use of Web-application...

CVE-2009-1473

The 1 Windows and 2 Java client programs for the ATEN KH1516i IP KVM switch with firmware 1.0.063 and the KN9116 IP KVM switch with firmware 1.1.104 do not properly use RSA cryptography for a symmetric session-key negotiation, which makes it easier for remote attackers to a decrypt network traffi...

Input validation

The 1 Windows and 2 Java client programs for the ATEN KH1516i IP KVM switch with firmware 1.0.063 and the KN9116 IP KVM switch with firmware 1.1.104 do not properly use RSA cryptography for a symmetric session-key negotiation, which makes it easier for remote attackers to a decrypt network traffi...

CVE-2009-1473

The 1 Windows and 2 Java client programs for the ATEN KH1516i IP KVM switch with firmware 1.0.063 and the KN9116 IP KVM switch with firmware 1.1.104 do not properly use RSA cryptography for a symmetric session-key negotiation, which makes it easier for remote attackers to a decrypt network traffi...

CVE-2009-1473

The CVE-2009-1473 entry affects ATEN KH1516i (firmware 1.0.063) and KN9116 (firmware 1.1.104). The root cause is an insecure RSA-based handling of the symmetric session-key negotiation in the Windows/Java clients, enabling a remote attacker to decrypt traffic or perform MITM by replaying client-s...

NTP.org 'ntpd' Autokey Stack Overflow Vulnerability

NTP.org SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2009 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only CPE = "cpe:/a:ntp:ntp"; ifdescription scriptoid"1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.900652";...

Bruce Schneier on Cryptography, Security Theater and the Psychology of Fear

Dennis Fisher talks with security expert Bruce Schneier about the usefulness of cryptography, the psychology of security and fear and the war on the unexpected after 9/11. Download Subscribe to the Digital Underground podcast on Podcast audio courtesy of George Wood...

RSA Cryptographer's Panel: Cloud Computing Takes Center Stage

Not so surprising, the state elders of cryptography had a few things to say about the security of cloud computing — but with little agreement. Whitfield Diffie, chief security officer at Sun Microsystems, kicked off the cloud security discussion, stating that while securing the cloud computing...

RedHat Security Advisory RHSA-2009:0402

The remote host is missing updates announced in advisory RHSA-2009:0402. Openswan is a free implementation of Internet Protocol Security IPsec and Internet Key Exchange IKE. IPsec uses strong cryptography to provide both authentication and encryption services. These services allow you to build...

RHEL 5 : openswan (RHSA-2009:0402)

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 5 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2009:0402 advisory. Openswan is a free implementation of Internet Protocol Security IPsec and Internet Key Exchange IKE. IPsec uses strong cryptography to provi...

Important: Red Hat Security Advisory: openswan security update

Updated openswan packages that fix various security issues are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5. This update has been rated as having important security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team. Openswan is a free implementation of Internet Protocol Security IPsec and Internet Key...

CVE-2007-6721

The Legion of the Bouncy Castle Java Cryptography API before release 1.38, as used in Crypto Provider Package before 1.36, has unknown impact and remote attack vectors related to "a Bleichenbacher vulnerability in simple RSA CMS signatures without signed attributes."...

Design/Logic Flaw

The Legion of the Bouncy Castle Java Cryptography API before release 1.38, as used in Crypto Provider Package before 1.36, has unknown impact and remote attack vectors related to "a Bleichenbacher vulnerability in simple RSA CMS signatures without signed attributes."...