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Can we still provide confidentiality when cryptography is outlawed?
In certain jurisdictions, use of cryptography by the private sector is limited: e.g. there are reports that in the UAE and other countries not all of the encryption capabilities of the BlackBerry are ...
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Protecting critical state infrastructure from the aftermath of a nuclear blast
Countries rely on computer infrastructure for a huge percentage of communications and military management, as well as utilities like electricity. Unfortunately, nuclear attacks release massive ...
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NSA Suite A Cryptography: Security through obscurity?
What is the opinion of scholars, cryptographers on NSA Suite A? Containing unpublished algorithms. Could it really be that much better than the published algorithms besides being obscure and not ...
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What steps should one take to provide “reasonable” levels of privacy from a government?
I'm highly uncomfortable with the recent news surrounding government snooping in the UK.
If we define a typical user to mean somebody who:
Browses web sites such as BBC News and Stack Overflow
Uses ...
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Online Government Elections System - Is it possible?
I am from Bulgaria and currently some groups here are promoting the idea of referendum among the people, about the possibility for establishing a system for ONLINE GOVERNMENT ELECTIONS. The idea is ...
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SIPR, NIPR and Centrix Military systems [closed]
This is going to branch into a bunch of seperate questions.....here is some background for the question:
The Rijndael algorithm was crowned the new AES by Uncle Sam for sensitive, but unclassified ...
