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BlackBerrys squashed by Whitehall data ban
News Last month defence Secretary Des Browne admitted that three MoD laptops containing around 600,000 details of servicemen and recruits have been stolen since 2005. Check out silicon.com's latest Cheat Sheets… Galileo ... [04 Feb 2008]
Whitehall staff banned from removing laptops
News It follows Defence Secretary Des Browne's admission that three MoD laptops containing around 600,000 details of servicemen and recruits have been stolen since 2005. The directive is expected to result in the... [22 Jan 2008]
Cheat Sheet: Encryption
Cheat Sheet As an example, the US ditched a 56-bit key-sized cipher called the Data Encryption Standard (DES) as its official encryption standard a few years ago in favour of the longer-keyed... [28 Nov 2007]
Kerberized NFS in a NetApp Storage System Using a Unix-Based Kerberos Authentication Server
White Paper Here Kerberos is a system that employs strong data encryption algorithms (for example, AES, DES, and 3DES) along with message digest algorithms (for example, CRC-32, MD5, and SHA1) to ensure data... [31 Aug 2007]
Wi-Fi security tips - let's take care out there
News A VPN is a must for corporate connectivity and even smaller client devices such as PDAs and ultra-thin laptops have enough processing power to support triple-DES encryption without slowing connections to... [26 Mar 2003]
Your PIN number is not secure
News The Data Encryption Standard (DES) which all banks use, was previously thought to be practically invulnerable, with the fastest hardware running random number sequences estimated to take 70 years to crack. [09 Nov 2001]
Worldpay unveils anti-fraud system
News Within the box are two chips, one of which encrypts transaction requests to Triple DES (data Encryption Standard). Payment systems specialist Worldpay has released a system to protect customers... [24 Sep 2001]
Private bits - the battle to safeguard data through encryption
Comment The traditional method uses a secret key, such as the DES (data encryption standard). DES allows both the sender and receiver to use the same key to encrypt and decrypt. One of the... [12 Jan 2001]
56-bit encryption cracked in three days
News There has been wide criticism of 56-bit encryption, which forms the basis of the US government's Data Encryption Standard (DES). Called the DES Cracker, it claims it... [20 Jul 1998]