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KEY EXPERIENCE The sys admin’s daily grind: Single-packet authentication

Conventional, woodpecker-style port knocking is open to sniffing and brute force knocking attacks. Sending an encrypted packet with an access request to the server is safer and more modern. Learn more about Firewall Knock Operator, a.k.a. Fwknop.

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KEY ISSUE Encrypting mail in Thunderbird

Combining the Enigmail add-on and the GnuPG encryption software gives Thunderbird users a powerful tool for encrypting and signing email.

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Industry Consortium Rivalry over Crypto Standards

The idea of an industry-wide common cryptography standard is certainly welcome. But self-interest usually precedes usability, so two industry consortiums are now vying over which standards to adopt, one on the side of Sun and the other leaning toward IBM/HP. Then there is an additional player in the Trusted Computing Group.

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BROKEN CHAIN OF TRUST The death of MD5 (and some SSL certificates)

Researchers set out to compromise MD5 in an effort to convince people to stop using it. We explain how the attack worked and what this means for you.

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Tor Software Down to Zero Bugs

The Tor Project announces that it has removed all bugs that Coverity Scan had found in its software.

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PREVENTION Staying one step ahead of the intruders

Internet intruders have many ingenious ways of escalating privileges and hiding their presence once they get inside your system. The best protection is to keep them out in the cold.

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GnuTLS Version 2.0.0 Released

Version 2.0.0 of the GnuTLS security database improves access to X.509 certificates and adds RSA with SHA-256/384/512 certificates to the crop of supported crypto approaches.

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BATTENING DOWN THE DISKS Burning CDs and DVDS with an encrypted filesystem

An encrypted hard disk on your server is no help if valuable data on CDs or DVDs falls into the hands of spies. We’ll show you some convenient solutions for encrypting data on removable media.

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