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The Encryption Debate: Law Enforcement Special Access Is Not a Solution

13

Oct

2015

On September 10, 2015, the #fbi Director James B. Comey continued advocating #law enforcement’s concerns that companies’ adoption of stronger #encryption without possessing a key to decode it creates an environment favoring criminals and impeding investigators. The debate about whether law enforcement should possess the ability to access #encrypted communications has risen to the surface […]

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Researchers say SHA-1 will soon be broken, urge migration to SHA-2

12

Oct

2015

In as little as three short months, the #sha-1 internet #security standard used for digital signatures and set to be phased out by January 2017, could be broken by motivated hackers, a team of international #researchers found, prompting security specialists to call for a ramping up of the migration to #sha-2. “We just successfully broke […]

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Researchers Warn Against Continuing Use Of SHA-1 Crypto Standard

09

Oct

2015

The #sha-1 #security standard, widely used in digital certificates, electronic banking, browsers, and other applications is weaker than previously thought and susceptible to attacks that are now well within the resources of criminal groups, an international team of cryptanalysts warned Thursday. Security #researchers had previously estimated that it would take at least another two years […]

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