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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What is the opinion of scholars, cryptographers on NSA Suite A? Containing unpublished algorithms.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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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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How can citizens prevent government-led Internet blackouts?
The United Nations now considers Internet access a basic human right. [PDF]
Despite the questionable effectiveness of Internet blackouts in silencing a populace and preventing uprisings1, it's ...
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Cyberwarfare Resources
I am working on some research regarding advanced persistent threats. Within this effort, discussion of cyber-warfare started. Looking further into the subject, I have found a plethora of links ...
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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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What was the issue the UAE had with RIM/Blackberry and what was the outcome? What countries have similar agreements?
I'd like to understand what came out of UAE's desire to monitor RIM traffic, and what technical compromise was made.
Do other countries have similar agreements with RIM? What are the details? ...
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Design proposals for enhanced security for parts of Internet, e.g. for banking?
There is some recent discussion of some sort of "multilevel" internet, with e.g. a level defined for banking in which access is only granted after special authentication with "true names", special ...
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Standards for hiring trusted personnel - American or Canadian Government?
Is anyone familiar with an ISO standard outlining the hiring of labour for vendors being hired by DHS or Canadian government? I've found security standards but nothing for hiring practices.
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The safest way to circumventing Iran's Internet censorship
We usually buy services like VPN, SOCKS, Kerio [Kerio Connect?]... to circumvent Iran's Internet censorship policy.
Recently, one of the shops started selling [one of] Kerio's products, for which I do ...
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What happens if a pro-censor ISP has Telex key(s)?
I've been watching more and more people jump on the idea of Telex as a way to prevent internet censorship (e.g. http://www.technologyreview.com/communications/38207/ -- not my comments at the bottom ...
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Why have export controls for cryptography?
I've always heard someone justify the means for export restrictions with "it's for governmental control/spying". In most reasonable countries, the justice system asks people to adhere to the "spirit ...
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How to apply FIPS to Microsoft Access database with custom VBA
As the software engineer on a project, I have been asked to make a Microsoft Access application, with custom interfaces running custom VBA. That part is going just fine. Recently though I was asked to ...
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Which forensic techniques should I use to identify intrusion or monitoring of my computer or cellphone
If I suspect my computer or cellphone is being monitored by an unknown attacker, what tools or techniques could I use to detect or identify such monitoring?
Currently I'm unable to detect the ...
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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 ...
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How Is It Possible For Hackers To “Dig Up The Dirt” On People?
Like the title says, I was wondering how its possible for hackers to "dig up the dirt" and get peoples personal information such as address, credit cards, bank accounts, social insurance number, etc? ...
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Given a large enough sampling of public keys could one begin to identify a private key?
For example, an ISP or government capable of tracking millions of keys being exchanged. Would that provide a sample large enough to be able to identify the private key on either end?
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FOUO on hosted sharepoint
I and few of my fellow employees were asking if it was okay to put FOUO (NSA issued) documents on SharePoint. The main justification was that its password protected (which is correct).
But its a ...
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What does Bluffdale mean for privacy?
I posted a question related to tracing webserver attacks over here and the responses got me google-ing. My understanding has always been that privacy is dead
and that essentially there's always ...
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Why is Elliptic Curve Cryptography not used much outside of government? [closed]
It seems that Elliptic Curve Cryptography, being required by the US government, is not being used outside of the government. Why is this? And why does the government support it's use for government?
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How does WikiLeaks(Julian Assange) get the US Embassy cables? [closed]
How does this guy get these cables? Are those cables routed through a single node, where this guy got it? If so, How it is possible? I mean, how that single point came under the control of Julian ...
