John Paul Stevens Was a Cryptographer

I didn't know that Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens "was also a cryptographer for the Navy during World War II." He was a proponent of individual privacy...

Core Tor Developer who accuses FBI of Harassment moves to Germany

One of TOR's primary software developers, Isis Agora Lovecruft, has fled to Germany, following the threat of a federal subpoena. Lovecruft is a well-known cryptographer and lead software developer for Tor project from many years. She has worked for a variety of other security and encryption...

Difficulty of Detecting OpenSSL Heartbleed Attacks Adds to Problem

The list of products and sites affected by the OpenSSL heartbleed vulnerability continues to grow, and as security teams implement the patch and dig into the thornier work of revoking certificates, a new problem is emerging: It’s difficult to know whether an attacker has exploited the vulnerabili...

Jacob Appelbaum 2013 30c3 keynote on NSA Surveillance

Cryptographer, developer and activist Jacob Appelbaum took to the pages of Germany’s Der Spiegel and the keynote dais of the 30th Chaos Communication Congress this weekend to deliver a damning expose of the catalog of backdoors, monitoring programs and products that potentially have and could be...

NSA paid $10 Million bribe to RSA Security for Keeping Encryption Weak

If you own a world-renowned Security Product or a Service, National Security Agency NSA is ready to pay you 10 Million or more bribe for keeping intentional backdoor for them. According to an exclusive report published by Reuters, there is a secret deal between the NSA and respected encryption...

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...

Comodo, DigiNotar Attacks Expose Crumbling Foundation of CA System

There are a lot of things in the security world that are broken and there isn’t room to list them all, even on the Internet. But if the events of the last few days have shown us anything, it’s that the certificate authority infrastructure is beyond broken and there’s no quick fix looming on the...

Stuxnet Authors Made Several Basic Errors

ARLINGTON, VA–There is a growing sentiment among security researchers that the programmers behind the Stuxnet attack may not have been the super-elite cadre of developers that they’ve been mythologized to be in the media. In fact, some experts say that Stuxnet could well have been far more...

Experts: OpenBSD Backdoor Allegations 'Almost Certainly False'

The incredible allegations that developers working under the auspices of the FBI and Justice Department planted a backdoor in the IPSec stack of the OpenBSD operating system are likely just that, experts say: not credible. “There is no way that the FBI paid anyone to create backdoors in OpenBSD a...

Taher Elgamal on Encryption, SSL, The Cloud

In this wide ranging interview, cryptographer, Taher Elgamal, chief security officer of Axway Inc. and initial driving force behind SSL, explains how applications may be better adapted to defend against attacks and how cloud computing may alter data protection and authentication. Read the full...

Inside the PlayStation 3 Exploit

The recent attack on the PlayStation 3 hypervisor has gotten a tremendous amount of attention, but there has not been much in the way of detailed analysis of the actual exploit itself. However, a prominent cryptographer and security researcher has looked at the exploit and found that it is a...

Q&A: Cloud Security with Former Sun CSO

The recent ACM Cloud Computing Security Workshop in Chicago was devoted specifically to cloud security. Speakers included Whitfield Diffie, a cryptographer and security researcher who, in 1976, helped solve a fundamental problem of cryptography: how to securely pass along the “keys” that unlock...

Q&A: Bruce Schneier

CNet’s Elinor Mills has produced an interesting Q&A interview with security guru Bruce Schneier where the cryptographer pokes fun at the National Cyber Security Month, talks about his background in crypto and working for the U.S. Defense Department, and says he fears privacy invasion more from...