News tagged with cryptographic system
Cryptographic attack highlights the importance of bug-free software
A padlocked icon in a web-browser or a URL starting with https provides communication security over the Internet. The icon or URL indicates OpenSSL, a cryptography toolkit implementing the SSL protocol, or a similar system ...
Feb 29, 2012 |
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Secure updates for navigation systems and company
At the push of a button by the driver, control units download the car manufacturer's new software -- such as enhanced map material for the navigation system. To ensure that this data channel is protected from hacker attack, ...
Oct 05, 2011 |
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Rivest unlocks cryptography's past, looks toward future
The most widely used cryptographic system today may eventually be vulnerable, said computer science professor Ronald Rivest -- one of the system's primary creators -- but even if it fails, new systems are ...
Technology / Computer Sciences
Feb 15, 2011 |
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More accurate than Heisenberg allows? Uncertainty in the presence of a quantum memory
Quantum cryptography is the safest way to encrypt data. It utilizes the fact that transmitted information can only be measured with a strictly limited degree of precision. Scientists at Ludwig-Maximilians-University in Munich ...
Jul 27, 2010 |
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Secure computers aren't so secure
(PhysOrg.com) -- Even well-defended computers can leak shocking amounts of private data. MIT researchers seek out exotic attacks in order to shut them down.
Technology / Computer Sciences
Oct 30, 2009 |
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Fighting tomorrow's hackers
One of the themes of Dan Brown's The Da Vinci Code is the need to keep vital and sensitive information secure. Today, we take it for granted that most of our information is safe because it's encrypted. Every time we use a ...
Technology / Computer Sciences
Feb 05, 2009 |
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