Senate staffers can now use what is widely considered the world’s most secure messaging app. …read more Source:: Open Source S
Category: Encryption
Encryption
Encryption: Usage grows again, but only at snail’s pace
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Deployment pain and problems in finding data in the corporate maze get the blame for lack of interest in crypto from business. …read more Source:: Open Source S
Chrome extension brings encryption to Gmail
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By Fahmida Y. Rashid The security and privacy community was abuzz over the weekend after Google said it was open-sourcing E2Email, a Chrome plugin designed to ease the implementation and use of encrypted email. …read more Source:: OpenSource
Don’t panic about SHA-1—fix it
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By Serdar Yegulalp Last week, Google unveiled proof that it had successfully created a collision attack against the SHA-1 hash algorithm, a security weakness long suspected to be exploitable with modern computing …read more Source:: OpenSource
Google ventures into public key encryption
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By Fahmida Y. Rashid Google announced an early prototype of Key Transparency, its latest open source effort to ensure simpler, safer, and secure communications for everyone. The project’s goal is to make it easier …read more Source:: OpenSource
Git Hound, Truffle Hog root out GitHub leaks
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By Fahmida Y. Rashid It’s App Dev 101: Don’t hard-code API tokens, encryption keys, and user credentials. But if you do, make sure to get them out of your code before committing to GitHub …read more Source:: OpenSource
Google open-sources test suite to find crypto bugs
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By Fahmida Y. Rashid Working with cryptographic libraries is hard, and a single implementation mistake can result in serious security problems. To help developers check their code for implementation errors and find weaknesses …read more Source:: OpenSource
GPG Sync simplifies encryption key management
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By Fahmida Y. Rashid In all the discussion about using encryption, a critical point keeps getting lost: It’s difficult to work with, and it’s even harder to deploy it at scale. Nowhere is the …read more Source:: OpenSource
Mitchell Hashimoto follows up Vagrant with Vault key encryption
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By Serdar Yegulalp After creating the Vagrant devops tool, Mitchell Hashimoto has been anything but complacent. He’s launched several projects, including the Atlas end-to-end management system for controlling the open source projects …read more Source:: OpenSource
China Wants Silicon Valley's Encryption Keys: Good Business, or Get Out?
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China wants the encryption keys from U.S. technology companies as part of a counter-terrorism law. The draft law leaves U.S. tech giants with two options: Play ball or get out. Read more at ZDNet News Source: Linux