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- Jashsoft Cryptographer (zip)
- Jashsoft Cryptographer allows users to Encrypt their message or text using a Passkey/Password and send it through E-Mail. The recipient has to decrypt the code using the same Passkey/Password to read the message. This allows users to send vital data via E-Mail securely. So now there are no worries of...
- Tags: Jashsoft, Jashsoft Cryptographer, E-mail, Online Communications
- Software downloads 2008-05-09
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- The Cryptographer (zip)
- The Cryptographer is a unique tool for solving cryptoquotes and crosswords. It works by gathering information about individual words and then cross-referencing the data against a very large wordlist. The download comes with a detailed file on how to use The Cryptographer. The program was developed with Java. Version 1...
- Tags: Cryptographer, Hartigan Software, Productivity, Programming Languages, Java, Software Development, Software/Web Development
- Software downloads 2008-06-30
- Jashsoft Ping Tool (widget)
- Yahoo Widget that will allow you send and receive hidden packets and doesnt let your connection go idle. This version is the first release on CNET Download.com.
- Tags: Packet, Tool, Productivity
- Software downloads 2007-10-31
- Schneier: Do not upgrade to Vista
- Security guru Bruce Schneier has given a big thumbs-down to Windows Vista, arguing that the DRM digital rights management features built into the new operating system "will make your computer less reliable and less secure."The celebrated cryptographer, who is credited with designing or co-designing several widely used encryption algorithms, is...
- Tags: Microsoft, Windows Vista, Punditocracy, Piracy, Digital rights management, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows Vista, Bruce Schneier, digital-rights management
- Blog posts 2007-02-12
- RSA 2007 keynotes: Notable quotes
- The morning RSA keynotes were mostly warmed over common wisdom--layer approachs, risk management, intelligence sharing, managing user identities, governance, focusing on users, etc.--about information security, with the exception of the cryptographer panel, which had some good moments. I pulled out some quotes from the presentations to give a flavor of...
- Tags: General, IT Management, Security, RSA Security Inc.
- Blog posts 2007-02-06
- Putting the cracking of SHA-1 in perspective
- Putting the cracking of SHA-1 in perspectiveMore or less?"The science of finger print forensics or even genetic DNA matching is still far reliable than SHA-1 hashing."Are fingerprints and DNA more or less reliable than SHA-1?I suppose it depends on how the crack works.If someone can download a binary file, tamper...
- Tags: SHA-1
- Discussion threads 2007-01-22
- Microsoft cryptographer: There are no back doors into Vista
- Microsoft cryptographer: There are no back doors into VistaIndeed, why any security at all?I mean EVERY security system has "avenues of attack" so why use any?David, that was plain dumb. A massive fort still has avenues of attack. You can march right up to the front gate and...
- Tags: SECURITY, Microsoft Corp., attack, encryption, Microsoft Windows Vista
- Discussion threads 2006-03-07
- Microsoft cryptographer: There are no back doors into Vista
- By way of ZDNet reader Derek Flickinger comes VNUNet's Iain Thompson's report: A senior cryptographer working for Microsoft has vehemently denied that the firm is planning to compromise the encryption functionality incorporated in its forthcoming Vista operating system by adding a backdoor. Niels Ferguson, a Dutch cryptographic...
- Tags: Microsoft Corp., BitLocker
- Blog posts 2006-03-07
- BitLocker, TPM, and tinfoil hats
- A few weeks ago, the BBC News published a story that was literally true and hopelessly wrong. Under the headline UK holds Microsoft security talks, political reporter Ollie Stone-Lee wrote:UK officials are talking to Microsoft over fears the new version of Windows could make it harder for police to read...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista, hard drive
- Blog posts 2006-03-07
- Microsoft: Vista won't get a backdoor
- Microsoft: Vista won't get a backdoorHeck, why worry about back doors, they can waltz right in thefont door. This is Windows we are talking about.Trust any “cat-in-a-bag” that comes from very “honest” Bill Gates. NTNTI don't think it makes business sense to do thisAny backdoor would get rejection, and rejection...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), SECURITY, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows Vista
- Discussion threads 2006-03-03
- Noted crypto expert performs detailed Skype vulnerability analysis
- Those in the VoIP community who are critical of Skype are numerous in their number and loud in their derision of the utility as not secure.With 35 years as a cryptographer, Tom Berson of Anagram Laboratories writes that he is "professonally skeptical about the security of almost anything, especially of...
- Tags: Skype Technologies S.A.
- Blog posts 2005-10-31
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