Google has just released an open source cryptographic toolkit: Keyczar. The company is aiming to make inherently complex cryptography easier and safer for developers to implement. In addition to the Google Code page where you can get the toolkit, there is this information page, and a link to a discussion group. Keyczar is released under [...]

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The team behind the popular torrent site The Pirate Bay has started to work on a new encryption technology that could potentially protect all Internet traffic from prying eyes.

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“I looked through my mp3 collection and found some really geeky and funny songs. I thought, why not add a little more fun to my blog! The songs are really geeky and my readers might like them.
I’ll be posting a song each Friday until I run out of songs (I have 6 songs at the [...]

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Bills pending in the Michigan and Washington state legislatures would mandate that personal information stored in business computers be “encrypted.” Legislatures are unwise to engage in such micro-management.
Pending Michigan Senate Bill (SB) 1022 would forbid a business from storing personally identifiable information in a database unless the information is encrypted. Similarly, in Washington State, pending [...]

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A team from Princeton University has developed ways to break disk encryption, including Bitlocker, Truecrypt, Apple encryption, and Linux encryption, if the computer is in sleep mode or sitting at a password prompt, or even if it’s just been turned off.

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BURLINGTON, Vt. (AP) — When Sebastien Boucher stopped at the U.S.-Canadian border, agents who inspected his laptop said they found files containing child pornography.But when they tried to examine the images after his arrest, authorities were stymied by a password-protected encryption program.
Now Boucher is caught in a cyber-age quandary: The government wants him to give [...]

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