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Grade School Crypto Videos
This is a short, gentle two-part introduction to basic cryptographic concepts using text-based crypto examples. The…
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Cities, Disneyland, and Software Security
I like to think of our modern software infrastructure as being like a large city and…
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libhairshirt vs libfootgun
Peter Gutmann, an interesting crypto-academic from New Zealand, has proposed discussing two crypto libraries, libhairshirt and…
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Old Story: Leaked Voter Records
My previous posting on the Proud Boys spam email speculated that voter records were widely available…
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Life Cycle of a Security Bug
Unlike members of the insect family, computer software bugs live forever. Software security bugs (well, flaws)…
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The Six Types of Cyber-Risks
My textbook lists categories of cyber-attacks that focus on an attack’s lasting impact: how does it affect the…
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The Big Bug in the News: the WPA2 flaw
The big news this week is a protocol flaw in the Wireless Protected Access protocol, version…
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Tiptoeing Through Vulnerabilities
I sympathize with developers who throw up their hands and say, “I don’t do security stuff.”…
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Symantec Breaks Trust with the Internet?
Symantec is one of the companies that holds the keys to the Internet: they are a trusted…
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The Apple case isn’t “privacy” versus “safety”
The current fight is about whether we will impose a technological infrastructure which will be exceptionally…
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The “Bug-Free Software” fallacy
About 20 years ago, I worked with a fellow who proudly told me that he had…
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Multics was flawless?
Last week I participated in a very geeky panel discussion about a now-defunct standard for computer…
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