Collaborate Disseminate
The Linux command wall is a hold-over from the way Unix machines used to be used. It’s an abbreviation of Write to ALL, and it was first included in AT&T …read more Continue reading This Week in Security: Peering Through the Wall, Apple’s GoFetch, and SHA-256
A web-mapping project came across detainees’ prescriptions and other PII that could be used by identity thieves to victimize prisoners. Continue reading Data about inmates and jail staff spilled by leaky prison app
Hashing, it’s always a contentious issue – used to be md5, then sha-1, then bcrypt and now it looks like SHA-256 or SHA3-256 might the future with quantum science boffins predicting it’s not feasable to crack. You can read more about the algorithm and design (using sponge construction) on Wikipedia here: SHA-3 While it’s reasonable […]
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Continue reading SHA-256 and SHA3-256 Are Safe For the Foreseeable Future
Mozilla has proposed banning new SHA-1 certificates from Chinese Certificate Authority WoSign for one year after it accused the CA of back-dating the deprecated certs. Continue reading Mozilla Wants to Drop WoSign as Trusted CA