News tagged with encryption protocol

Patch for flaw in key Internet protocol

(PhysOrg.com) -- A flaw was found in November in a key Internet protocol that encrypts most sensitive online transactions and communications, including credit card and banking transactions. A patch has now ...

Technology / Internet

created Jan 15, 2010 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (15) | comments 4 | with audio podcast report

Report: China building cyberwarfare capabilities

(AP) -- China is building its cyberwarfare capabilities and appears to be using the growing technical abilities to collect U.S. intelligence through a sophisticated and long-term computer attack campaign, according to an ...

Technology / Internet

created Oct 22, 2009 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 3

Study finds widespread privacy failings in online social networks

(PhysOrg.com) -- Furious competition between social networking sites is compromising the protection of users' data, a Cambridge University study has concluded.

Technology / Internet

created Jul 21, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1




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The world’s fastest Y-00 stream cipher transmission at 40 Gbit/sec over 120 km

Fumio Futami at Tamagawa University, Quantum ICT Research Institute, announced the world first transmission of the stream cipher by Yuen 2000 protocol (Y-00) at the bit rate of 40 Gbit/sec over 120 km.

Physics / Optics & Photonics

created Mar 06, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Twists to quantum technique for secret messaging give unanticipated power

Quantum cryptography is the ultimate secret message service. Now new research, presented at the 2012 AAAS Annual Meeting, shows it can counter even the ultimate paranoid scenario: when the equipment or even the operator is ...

Physics / Quantum Physics

created Feb 19, 2012 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (11) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

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

$8.5 million research initiative will study best approaches for quantum memories

The U.S. Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR) has awarded $8.5 million to a consortium of seven U.S. universities that will work together to determine the best approach for generating quantum memories ...

Physics / Quantum Physics

created Feb 15, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 2

US-CERT says Wi-Fi hole open to brute force attack

(PhysOrg.com) -- The US Computer Emergency Readiness Team (US-CERT) has issued a warning about a security hole in the Wi-Fi Protected Set-up protocol for Wi-Fi routers. Security researcher Stefan Viehbock ...

Technology / Telecom

created Dec 29, 2011 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (6) | comments 7 | with audio podcast report

Researchers roll Einstein's dice: Developing a quantum random number generator

(PhysOrg.com) -- Quantum mechanics implies that uncertainty in experimental measurements are an inherent part of nature – an idea that Albert Einstein disparagingly characterized as “rolling dice”. ...

Physics / Quantum Physics

created Nov 30, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 58 | 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

New programming language to plug information leaks in software

The current method for preventing users and unauthorised individuals from obtaining information to which they should not have access in data programs is often to have code reviewers check the code manually, looking for potential ...

Technology / Software

created Nov 23, 2011 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (5) | comments 0

The future of airport passport control

Digital security specialists, major European electronics makers, and experts in biometrics worked together to make passport control at airports faster. The technology also could have broader applications on the way our identity ...

Technology / Other

created Oct 14, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Simple security for wireless: no password required

In early August, at the Def Con conference — a major annual gathering of computer hackers — someone apparently hacked into many of the attendees’ cell phones, in what may have been the first successful breach ...

Technology / Telecom

created Aug 22, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (7) | comments 3 | with audio podcast


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