News tagged with key
New record in the area of prime number decomposition of cryptographically important numbers
An international team of scientists from EPFL (Switzerland), INRIA (France), NTT (Japan), CWI (The Netherlands) and Bonn University (Germany), has obtained the prime factors of the RSA challenge number RSA-768, using the ...
Jan 08, 2010 |
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Mobile tech 'can replace cheques'
(PhysOrg.com) -- With cheques due to be phased out in the UK by 2018 new security technology developed at Oxford University could offer a replacement, allowing people a secure way to pay in almost any situation.
Technology / Hi Tech & Innovation
Dec 18, 2009 |
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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 ...
Dec 08, 2009 |
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New digital security program doesn't protect as promised
(PhysOrg.com) -- University of Texas at Austin scientists have shown that they can break "Vanish," a program that promised to self-destruct computer data, such as emails and photographs, and thereby protect a person's privacy.
Technology / Computer Sciences
Sep 29, 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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Researchers Set New Distance Record for Quantum Key Distribution
(PhysOrg.com) -- Quantum key distribution (QKD) could be the next commercial success of quantum physics, and a recent study has taken the field a step closer to this reality. Researchers from the University ...
Jul 21, 2009 |
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Researchers establishing security standards for the internet
(PhysOrg.com) -- Dartmouth researchers who were pioneers in Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) - a system that secures and authenticates computer communications - are now playing leading roles establishing Internet ...
Jul 07, 2009 |
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Researchers unite to distribute quantum keys
Researchers from across Europe have united to build the largest quantum key distribution network ever built. The efforts of 41 research and industrial organisations were realised as secure, quantum encrypted information ...
Jul 02, 2009 |
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Making quantum cryptography practical
Quantum cryptography, a completely secure means of communication, is much closer to being used practically as researchers from Toshiba and Cambridge University's Cavendish Laboratory have now developed high speed detectors ...
Apr 30, 2009 |
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Researchers find molecular 'key' to successful blood stem cell transplants
University of British Columbia researchers have discovered a "molecular key" that could help increase the success of blood stem cell transplants, a procedure currently used to treat diseases such as leukemia, Hodgkin's lymphoma ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Apr 22, 2009 |
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Discovery of protein that reactivates herpes simplex virus helps solve medical mystery
Research in PLoS Pathogens appears to solve a long standing medical mystery by identifying a viral protein, VP16, as the molecular key that prompts herpes simplex virus (HSV) to exit latency and cause recurrent disease.
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Mar 27, 2009 |
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G19 keyboard goes way beyond typing
It seems like the ordinary is no longer acceptable when it comes to the ordinary things we attach to our computers these days. For example, I'll bet the computer mouse you are using is at the very least an ...
Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets
Mar 25, 2009 |
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Improving the security of Internet exchanges
(PhysOrg.com) -- TLS is the main protocol used today to secure exchanges over the Internet. The protocol has been subject to attacks in recent years, resulting in identity theft and data tampering. To address these problems, ...
Technology / Computer Sciences
Mar 20, 2009 |
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Review: Bookmark for public radio saves your place
(AP) -- I'm sort of a public radio junkie, so if I'm in my car and the kids haven't usurped the radio dial, I'm likely tuned to "Morning Edition," "Marketplace" or "Fresh Air." Unfortunately, my short daily ...
Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets
Mar 11, 2009 |
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Computer scientists deploy first practical, Web-based, secure, verifiable voting system
Computer scientists affiliated with the Center for Research on Computation and Society (CRCS), based at the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS), in collaboration with scientists at the Université ...
Technology / Computer Sciences
Mar 05, 2009 |
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