ipsec-tools -- remotely exploitable computational-complexity attack

Robert Foggia via NetBSD GNATS reports: The ipsec-tools racoon daemon contains a remotely exploitable computational complexity attack when parsing and storing isakmp fragments. The implementation permits a remote attacker to exhaust computational resources on the remote endpoint by repeatedly...

Academics Make Theoretical Breakthrough in Random Number Generation

Two University of Texas academics have made what some experts believe is a breakthrough in random number generation that could have longstanding implications for cryptography and computer security. David Zuckerman, a computer science professor, and Eshan Chattopadhyay, a graduate student, publish...

Large Scale Brute Force Cryptanalysis: Wisecracker

Large scale brute force cryptanalysis needs a tremendous amount of computational power that government agencies like the NSA and companies like Google® have. An average security researcher might want to have such capabilities as well but they do not have the tools or the computational resources...