News tagged with encryption
WPA Wi-Fi Encryption Cracked In Sixty Seconds
(PhysOrg.com) -- Two Japanese computer scientists have developed a way to crack the WPA encryption between wireless routes and devices in 60 seconds.
Aug 28, 2009 |
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BioVault locks up biometrics: Using biometrics for encryption, digital signatures
A system that allows biometric data to be used to create a secret key for data encryption has been developed by researchers in South Africa. They describe details of the new technology in the International Journal of Electronic Se ...
Technology / Computer Sciences
Jul 31, 2009 |
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A police woman fights quantum hacking and cracking
The first desktop computers changed the way we managed data forever. Three decades after their introduction, we rely on them to manage our time, social life and finances -- and to keep this information safe ...
Technology / Computer Sciences
Jul 30, 2009 |
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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.
Jul 21, 2009 |
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Capturing images in non-traditional way may benefit AF
New research in imaging may lead to advancements for the Air Force in data encryption and wide-area photography with high resolution.
Jul 14, 2009 |
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Researcher Discovers Method to Fully Process Encrypted Data Without Knowing its Content
(PhysOrg.com) -- An IBM Researcher has solved a thorny mathematical problem that has confounded scientists since the invention of public-key encryption several decades ago. The breakthrough, called "privacy homomorphism," ...
Jun 25, 2009 |
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Researchers make breakthrough in the quantum control of light
Researchers at UC Santa Barbara have recently demonstrated a breakthrough in the quantum control of photons, the energy quanta of light. This is a significant result in quantum computation, and could eventually ...
May 29, 2009 |
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Gadgets: Back everything up with a single touch
SanDisk Corp. has added the SanDisk Ultra Backup USB 2.0 portable flash drive to its long line of USB flash drives. This is the first to feature a solution to back up home or office data with the touch of ...
Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets
May 13, 2009 |
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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.
May 03, 2009 |
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Hollywood, RealNetworks square off on DVD copying
(AP) -- Hollywood calls it "rent, rip and return" and contends it's one of the biggest technological threats to the movie industry's annual $20 billion DVD market - software that allows you to copy a film ...
Apr 24, 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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