News tagged with encrypted communications

Who goes there? Verifying identity online

We are all used to logging into networks where we have a unique identity, verified by the network server and associated with our account for other members of the network to see. Such an identity-based network system is useful ...

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Feb 17, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Scientists break satellite telephony security standards

Satellite telephony was thought to be secure against eavesdropping. German researchers at the Horst Gortz Institute for IT-Security (HGI) at the Ruhr University Bochum (RUB) have cracked the encryption algorithms of the European ...

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Feb 08, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

How to decide who keeps the car: Tossing quantum coins moves closer to reality

Alice and Bob have broken up and have moved as far away from each other as possible. But they still have something to sort out: who gets to keep the car. Flipping a coin while talking on the phone to decide who gets to keep ...

Physics / Quantum Physics

created Nov 29, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Next generation FeliCa contactless IC chip to be launched

Sony Corporation announces today the launch of the next generation FeliCa IC chip with enhanced security adopting the Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) encryption. The new IC chip will support AES as well ...

Technology / Semiconductors

created Jun 13, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Beam me up ... Quantum teleporter breakthrough

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers have achieved a breakthrough in quantum communications and computing using a teleporter and a paradoxical cat.

Physics / Quantum Physics

created Apr 15, 2011 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (46) | comments 48 | with audio podcast

RIM tells India no access for BlackBerry emails

BlackBerry maker Research In Motion (RIM) said Thursday it could not give Indian law enforcers a way to monitor its corporate mail service, days ahead of a government deadline for access.

Technology / Business

created Jan 27, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Report: US would make Internet wiretaps easier

Broad new regulations being drafted by the Obama administration would make it easier for law enforcement and national security officials to eavesdrop on Internet and e-mail communications like social networking ...

Technology / Internet

created Sep 27, 2010 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (5) | comments 55

Interview: UN telecoms chief urges data sharing

(AP) -- BlackBerry's Canadian manufacturer should give law enforcement agencies around the world access to its customer data, the U.N. technology chief said, adding that governments have legitimate security ...

Technology / Telecom

created Sep 02, 2010 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 1

Threats of int'l BlackBerry bans echo US debate

(AP) -- Threats by the governments of India, the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia to shut down BlackBerry's corporate e-mail services reflect unease about a technology that the U.S. government also took ...

Technology / Telecom

created Aug 16, 2010 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (8) | comments 4

Quantum cryptography protocol doesn’t require shared reference frames (Update)

(PhysOrg.com) -- Quantum cryptography, which enables two parties to communicate with each other with unconditional security, has begun to be implemented by some governments, banks, and other corporations with ...

Physics / Quantum Physics

created Mar 09, 2010 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (9) | comments 7 | with audio podcast weblog

AOptix Technologies and NuCrypt demonstrate physical-layer quantum encryption

AOptix Technologies, a leading edge developer of ultra-high bandwidth laser communication solutions, and NuCrypt, a provider of technology for ultra-high security over optical communication networks, disclosed today the recent ...

Physics / General Physics

created Dec 14, 2009 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (5) | comments 0

GSM system about to be compromised

(PhysOrg.com) -- Research scientists in California and elsewhere are deliberately setting out to compromise the mobile phone system used by around three billion people. The system uses Global System for Mobile ...

Technology / Telecom

created Dec 08, 2009 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (21) | comments 12 weblog

Austrian breakthrough in quantum cryptography: Record in the transmission of entangled photon pairs (Update)

Austrian physicists say a breakthrough in next-generation quantum cryptography could allow encrypted messages to be bounced off satellites, the British journal Nature reported Sunday.

Physics / Quantum Physics

created May 03, 2009 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (11) | comments 7