BlackBerry Giving Encryption Keys to Indian Government

Wednesday, May 21st, 2008

RIM encrypts e-mail between BlackBerry devices and the server the server with 236-bit AES encryption. The Indian government doesn't like this at all; they want to snoop on the data. RIM's response was basically: that's not possible. The Indian government's counter was: Then we'll ban BlackBerries. After months of threats, ...

YubiKey - One-time Password and Authentication Device

Saturday, April 26th, 2008

It works seamlessly with any hardware and operating system combination supporting USB keyboards such as Windows, MacOS, Linux and others. The Key generates and sends unique time-variant authentication codes by emulating keystrokes through the standard keyboard interface. The computer to which the Key is attached receives this authentication code character ...

New Technique Eases Encryption for Databases

Thursday, March 20th, 2008

Voltage Security offers to make deploying encryption at the database level less painful with a technique called Format-Preserving Encryption. Shocking the encryption market is not easy to do, but officials at Voltage Security must hope their new approach to encryption will do exactly that. The company's flagship SecureData product uses a cryptographic ...