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| Motorola and others launch mobile Linux group | ||
15th, June, 2006
A group of top mobile phone makers and operators are launching a foundation to create an open Linux-based software platform for mobile devices, they said on Thursday. The companies, including Motorola, Vodafone Group, NTT DoCoMo, Samsung Electronics, NEC, and Panasonic Mobile Communications, plan to focus on the development and marketing of an API (application programming interface) specification, architecture, and source reference. |
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| Internals of Full Disc Encryption Technology | ||
12th, June, 2006
Seagate Technology is about to release a HDD with hardware based encryption. These Full Disc Encryption (FDE) drives use 3DES algorithm in EDE (encrypt-decrypt-encrypt) mode using 3 different 64 bit keys. The effective key-length is 192 bit. Before the operating system boots, the user will be prompted to enter a password that will unlock the drive. You can always use 2-factor authentication instead of static password. Seagate's FDE drives can use biometric, RSA token, or smartcards. This was demo at CeBIT using TiDoCoMi from Secude. |
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| CLI Magic: ext2hide veils sensitive files | ||
12th, June, 2006
ext2hide is a proof-of-concept program that seeks to magically hide confidential data and files where nobody will look for them. It accomplishes its magic by making use of otherwise abandoned space in the superblocks in ext2/ext3 filesystems. Even though Jason McManus, the author of the code, has been testing and using ext2hide on his own machines without catastrophic results, I urge you to use the utmost caution both in testing and using it. If you don't grok superblocks and filesystems, you probably should not experiment with ext2hide, at least until it's out of beta testing. |
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| China Walks Out of Encryption Meeting | ||
12th, June, 2006
An international dispute over a wireless computing standard took a bitter turn this past week with the Chinese delegation walking out of a global meeting to discuss the technology. |
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| Secure your email communication with free software | ||
13th, June, 2006
In this article, you'll learn how to install, setup, and use the Mozilla Thunderbird email client for secure, encrypted email using GnuPG and the Enigmail Mozilla Thunderbird extension. The examples in this article are based on Ubuntu 5.10, but any GNU/Linux-based operating system can be used. You’ll also get to tackle the basics of using GnuPG with Enigmail†| ||
