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How to minimize your fingerprint, or become invisible on the web? [duplicate]
With all of these news stories about the government reading emails and snooping information from other sources, what are ways to minimize or eliminate an organization's ability to actually track and ...
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What parts of Bouncy Castle are affected by patents? [migrated]
Given that Bouncy Castle is an Open Source project, it's entirely possible that the contents contains implementations protected by various patents.
Since it's possible for the patent holder to sue ...
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How effectively can ISPs detect illegal file sharing?
Recently the USA passed a law requiring ISPs to spy on their customers' internet connections to check for illegal file sharing. I assume that they would do this by sniffing packets, but doesn't this ...
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Is purging AES keys allowed legally?
We're developing a service, that encrypt e-mail with AES algorithm.
Keys are stored in our server.
We thought about having an expiration service, that is deleting the key from our server. This ...
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Does SGC Support reduce HTTPS security?
Server Gated Cryptography is a legacy technology (implemented by obsolete laws) that allows older browsers to establish a SSL session at a higher encryption.
This article says SGC should never be ...
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Encryption-Laws in Iran
According to this article Iran has criminalized the usage of encryption and VPNs.
According to this blog post it is still possible to use SSH tunnels in Iran.
For me SSH is encryption and thus ...
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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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Export laws on the cloud (key size)
Do the U.S. export laws around AES-256 apply to applications hosted in the cloud?
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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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Is Steganography considered encryption and subject to USA export restrictions?
I have written an application for Apple's iOS which embeds messages in JPEG files using steganography (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steganography). For the purposes of this question lets assume ...
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Copyright issues with encryption algorithms
I'm developing application for Android/Java. Application is a kind of password manager, so I'm storing encrypted passwords under the hood of master password. There are number of encryption algorithms ...
