encryption

Email encryption doesn’t have to be an all-or-nothing deal • The Register 0
- TECHNOLOGY
- June 26, 2020
Webcast Leaked emails are the IT security mishap that just keeps on giving. From salacious tabloid headlines to lost elections to international security crises, a hacked or misfired email is the ultimate piece of first-hand evidence to light up a scandal, or ruin a reputation. In addition, passwords, account details, or other juicy information useful
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US, UK, Australia warn Facebook against end-to-end encryption 0
- TECHNOLOGY
- October 6, 2019
The US Department of Justice (DoJ), UK Home Secretary Priti Patel, and the Australian Minister for Home Affairs Peter Dutton are set to block Facebook’s plan to roll out end-to-end encryption across its entire messaging portfolio, over concerns that national security would be adversely impacted. In traditional client-server communications, encryption only protects data in-transit. A
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US, UK and Australia demand that Facebook stop plan to introduce end-to-end encryption for WhatsApp 0
- TECHNOLOGY
- October 5, 2019
The ‘war’ against end-to-end encryption has raged since the internet was popularised in the 1990s Politicians across three of the so-called ‘five eyes’ alliance have written to Facebook to demand that it stop development of end-to-end encryption in its messaging services – until it can reassure authorities… [ad_2] Source link
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New Home Secretary calls for an end to end-to-end encryption 0
- TECHNOLOGY
- August 1, 2019
UK Home Secretary Priti Patel has taken to the pages of The Telegraph to call for Facebook to insert back door access to the end-to-end encryption system of its messaging platform and other , as members of the Five Eyes nations meet to call for the same. When protecting digital traffic, there are effectively two
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US AG William Barr calls for encryption back door 0
- TECHNOLOGY
- July 24, 2019
US Attorney General William Barr has become the latest to call for back-door access in end-to-end encryption systems, claiming that the risk of adding such capabilities is not ‘materially greater than [vulnerabilities] already in the unmodified product.‘ Cryptography, the art of using mathematics to turn data into gibberish and back into useful data again only
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Google brings encryption to low-end devices with Adiantum 0
- TECHNOLOGY
- February 10, 2019
More security, without slowing your handset down INTRODUCING ADIANTUM. No, don’t stop reading botany buffs – we’re not talking about the maidenhair fern of the same name, but a new kind of encryption that Google has finally decided is ready for public consumption. Why do we need a new kind of encryption? Well, if you’ve
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