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Why watermarking is a bigger devil than DRM

There's been much news lately about the record industry getting ready to give up on DRM. DRM Digital Rights Management or some call it Digital Restrictions Management is a form of copy protection that protects the rights of content owners and restricts the usage of the customers it it's...

Tags: Digital-rights Management, Hash, Music, Hash Function, George Ou

Blog posts 2007-08-20

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The Linux botweb story that wasn't ...

One of the things that always confused me...If you can access the source code to Linux, then wouldn't it be possible to crack a password, and then alter the compromised system's source code to suit the hacker's needs?That doesn't seem to secure to me...The short answer is yes.But in reality...

Tags: OPEN SOURCE, Linux, source code, password, Apache Software Foundation, Microsoft IIS Server, security

Discussion threads 2009-09-14

Microsoft lover Citrix as heroine of the open source cloud

Nobody "walked" from VMworld - that's a mythNeither Citrix nor Microsoft "walked" from VMworld. Citrix is there exhibiting and drawing crowds that overwhelm the puny 10x10 booth to which VMware has restricted it, and despite not being allowed speaking slots on the main program, are speaking in Intel's and AMD's...

Tags: Citrix Systems Inc., Microsoft-lover, open source, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2009-09-01

SCV Cryptomanager 1.64 (Windows)

SCV Cryptomanager is a multi-function cryptographic calculator. SCV Cryptomanager works with symmetric and public-key systems like DES, AES, RSA, ECDSA, hashes and key generation functions. Offers many useful instruments including prime number generation, modular arithmetics calculator and certificate generation tools. The efficient user interface makes the cryptocalculator an obvious must-have...

Tags: Microsoft Windows, SCV Tools, SCV Cryptomanager, Productivity, Digital Security, Network Security, Security, Networking

Software downloads 2009-07-16

The Ff - Family of Protocols for RFID-Privacy and Authentication

Ff is a family of lightweight and privacy-preserving authentication protocols for RFID-systems. Contrary to related work, Ff offers user-adjustable authentication and privacy without requiring a complex cryptographic hash function or non-volatile state on the tag. At the core of Ff is a lightweight keyed hash function that allows the reader...

Tags: Northeastern University, Authentication, Ff, Security

White papers 2009-06-16

If a teacher had designed Twitter

It would have looked like Edmodo. I just discovered Edmodo yesterday, somewhat ironically via Twitter. Like Twitter, it's a microblogging site, but it builds in significant additional functionality to support classroom interactions. Note to any student information systems vendors looking to build social media functionality into your...

Tags: Twitter, Teacher, Edmodo, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2009-04-16

AutoRunnerX 1.2.6 (Windows)

Autostart of any files and portable software, once a USB flash drive or hard disk to the computer will connected. In addition, will a shortcut to drive on the desktop created. The autostart extension will be in the system control configured and working after the setup completely in the background....

Tags: Software, Microsoft Windows, Software Development, Tools & Techniques, Productivity, Development Tools, Security, Software/Web Development, Management

Software downloads 2009-03-21

How to Improve Security and Reduce Hardware Demands of the WIPR RFID Protocol

This paper analyzes and improves WIPR, an RFID identification scheme based on public key techniques with efficient hardware implementation. First the paper analyzes the security and privacy features of WIPR. The paper shows that a reduced version of WIPR is vulnerable to short padding attacks and WIPR needs a random...

Tags: University Of Waterloo, Hardware, Attack, Security

White papers 2009-02-28

Scalability of Table Lookup Techniques

This paper will examine the issues of memory and disk space consumption and performance considerations for various table lookup techniques using large amounts of data. These techniques include PROC FORMAT in association with the PUT function, the DATA step hash object, DATA step merging, the KEY= option of the SET...

Tags: Technique, Performance, Scalability, Productivity, Performance Management, Human Resources, Workforce Management

White papers 2009-02-27

FoxCrypt File Protection standard 1.0.2 (Windows)

FoxCrypt is a security software product. It uses AES 256 encryption algorithm and RIPEMD 160 hash function. FoxCrypt supports multiple user accounts. Without password, no one could recover the original. Move files into vault and keep them private even if you share a computer. Users will not be able to...

Tags: Security, Disk, File, FoxCrypt, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software

Software downloads 2009-02-25

Windows 7 and the netbook

Windows 7 and the netbookYes, you were missed.I hope the interruption was not too painful.What you said about change. Change will happen. It will catch everyone unawares. Both proprietary and Open Source will find new opportunities and pitfalls. The spoils will go to the most agile.Design...

Tags: Netbooks, nettops & MIDs, Microsoft Windows, netbook, Microsoft Windows 7, ARM

Discussion threads 2009-01-22

An easy fix ignored

An easy fix ignoredWhich points out the other obvious flaw...Who identified these CA's as being trustworthy in the first place? No one. They are self-appointed holders of our trust.This was the major criticism of the certificate process in the first place, and the fact that they continue to...

Tags: Web browsers, SSL/TLS, Network security, Computer Associates International Inc., MD5, easy fix

Discussion threads 2008-12-30

Why the Kindle is off my Christmas list

Why the Kindle is off my Christmas listRE: MGP2It's OK, we secretly send nasty messages to each other behind the scenes, whilst remaining perfectly professional on the face of the blogs :-PZack, check with Chris Dawson...He was crazy mad for this device when it first came out.It helps if you...

Tags: E-books, Christmas List

Discussion threads 2008-12-08

With 256-bit encryption, Acrobat 9 passwords still easy to crack

Following ElcomSoft's claim that despite the 256-bit encryption Acrobat 9 passwords are susceptible to more efficient brute forcing than Acrobat 8 passwords -- a claim that Adobe confirmed citing usability trade-offs and urged users to take advantage of its improved passphrase mechanisms -- ElcomSoft's Dmitry Sklyarov and Vladimir Katalov provide...

Tags: Adobe Systems Inc., Password, Adobe Acrobat, Encryption, Dancho Danchev

Blog posts 2008-12-04

Episode 61 - The Smelly Laptop

If you haven't heard the news, Jerry Seinfeld has recently been hired to do an entire campaign of advertisements for Microsoft. When I learned of this, I thought of a classic Seinfeld episode that could be re-enacted, with only a few minor dialogue changes to bring it up to date....

Tags: Operating System, Microsoft Windows Vista, Laptop Computer, Computer, Elaine, GEORGE, Susan, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Notebooks, Productivity, Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows, Software, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Jason Perlow

Blog posts 2008-08-22

No penalties for colleges that don't enforce anti-P2P

No penalties for colleges that don't enforce anti-P2PSlippery Slope argumentationYep, once they have the monitoring laws in place, next they will want to monitor a whole lot more. It is a trojan horse, but then Joe McCarthy isn't too far away in US history.Of course, Good ol' Joe needed a...

Tags: anti-P2P, monitoring

Discussion threads 2008-08-04

Low-Cost SHA-1 Hash Function Architecture for RFID Tags

Radio Frequency Identification RFID tags are expected to play an important role in the future of ubiquitous computing. By extending the deployment of computing devices to every facet of one's lives will open up communication infrastructures to new forms of attack. As such, the inclusion of security is vital in...

Tags: RFID Tag, Queen, RFID, Wireless And Mobility, Security, Biometrics

White papers 2008-06-20

New Google Patent would use media keywords to trigger social network connections

Published just this morning, a new Google Patent application entitled Social and Interactive Applications for Mass Media would trigger instant connections to user's social networks based on a type of audio recognition of key phrases the user encounters in broadcast or multimedia applications they are watching or listening to.By mapping...

Tags: Google

Blog posts 2007-06-07

Vegas Vault 1 (Windows)

Vegas Vault is the World's Strongest Data Encryption Program. It uses every major data encryption algorithm, one way hash function, pseudo-random number generator, and hundreds more esoteric entropy randomization algorithms. This program is in the public domain and comes with all 1100+ C source code functions. It uses the Indium...

Tags: Algorithm, Microsoft Windows, Sin City Software, Vegas Vault, Engineering

Software downloads 2007-01-25

HIME: Huge Integer Math and Encryption 2 (Windows)

HIME is a library with encryption functions and huge integer math functions. RSA public key, AES, RC4 secret key encryption, MD5, SHA-512 hash function, random number generation (Blum-Blum-Shub, RSA), Diffie-Hellman, compression, securely erase files. Every programming language that can access a dll can use HIME: C, C++, C#, Visual Basic,...

Tags: Function, RSA Security Inc., Random Number, Microsoft Windows, Encryption, DevOTechS, HIME, Programming Languages, C#, C/C++, Software Development, Software/Web Development

Software downloads 2007-01-11