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
Tag: encryption
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
Funds Flow in for GnuPG Author After Article Reveals His Plight
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On Thursday ProPublica published the frustrating tale of Werner Koch, the one guy – yes really – who’s maintaining the extremely widely-used Gnu Privacy Guard (GnuPG or GPG) software that people use to encrypt their email messages and digitally authenticate downloadable programs such as the Tor Browser. As the article revealed, Germany-based Koch was raising around ,000…
leap.bitmask 0.7.0
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Bitmask ======= *your internet encryption toolkit* .. image:: https://pypip.in/v/leap.bitmask/badge.png :target: https://crate.io/packages/leap.bitmask .. Source: Tech
New SSL Attack Lets a Malicious Listener Steal Session Cookies
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New flaw in an old encryption scheme leaves the experts scrambling to disable SSL 3 Read more at Linux Pro Magazine Source: Linux
To help Reset the Net, FSF launches guide to email protection
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BOSTON, Massachusetts, USA — Thursday, June 5th, 2014 — The Free Software Foundation (FSF) today released Email Self-Defense, a how-to guide for setting up and using email encryption. Source: Free Software
Just a Heartbleed Away: IT Security's Dirty Little Secret Putting…
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One of the major lessons learned from the Heartbleed vulnerability is how critical IT components, like encryption, are often overlooked; thereby placing organizations at high risk for an attack. Source: Tech
Free Software Foundation statement on Heartbleed vulnerability
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Today, news broke of a major security vulnerability in OpenSSL. The bug, which is being referred to as "heartbleed", allows unauthorized access to information protected, under normal conditions, by the SSL/TLS encryption used to secure much of the Internet. In response to the news, Free Software Foundation executive director John Sullivan made the following statement:…
All Linux Distributions Store Wi-Fi Passwords in Plain Text If You Don't Use Encryption
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My colleague, Silviu Stahie, wrote an interesting article earlier today, regarding the “ability” of the Ubuntu Linux operating system to store Wi-Fi passwords in plain text, “thanks” to the default design of the NetworkManager application, initially developed by Red Hat. Source: Tech
FSF responds to Microsoft's privacy and encryption announcement
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Yesterday, Microsoft announced a new effort to "[protect] customer data from government snooping." FSF executive director John Sullivan issued the following statement on Thursday, December 5th: Source: Free Software