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Carlos Gomes

Welcome to CAcert.org - 1 views

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shared by Carlos Gomes on 13 Mar 07 - Cached
  • CAcert.org is a community driven, Certificate Authority that issues certificates to the public at large for free. CAcert's goal is to promote awareness and education on computer security through the use of encryption, specifically with the X.509 family of standards. We have compiled a document base that has helpful hints and tips on setting up encryption with common software, and general information about Public Key Infrastructures (PKI). For the enthusiast looking to dip their toe in the water, we have an easy way of obtaining certificates you can use with your email program. You can use these not only to encrypt, but to prove to your friends and family that your email really does come from you. For administrators looking to protect the services they offer, we provide host and wild card certificates which you can issue almost immediately. Not only can you use these to protect websites, but also POP3, SMTP and IMAP connections, to list but a few. Unlike other certificate authorities, we don't limit the strength of the certificates, or the use of wild card certificates. Everyone should have the right to security and to protect their privacy, not just those looking to run ecommerce sites. If you're extremely serious about encryption, you can join CAcert's Assurance Programme and Web of Trust. This allows you to have your identity verified to obtain added benefits, including longer length certificates and the ability to include your name on email certificates. CAcert Inc. is a non-profit association, incorporated in New South Wales Australia.
Kiran Kuppa

"TrustyCon" security counter-convention planned for RSA refusniks - 0 views

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shared by Kiran Kuppa on 22 Jan 14 - No Cached
  • Kiran Kuppa on 22 Jan 14
     
    The RSA concerns started with documents leaked by Edward Snowden and published by the New York Times in December. These indicated that the NSA had worked with the National Institute of Standards and Technology to create a "backdoor" in the Dual Elliptic Curve Deterministic Random Bit Generator (Dual_EC_DRBG), a pseudorandom number generator designated as a standard for encryption. According to the documents, in 2004-even before NIST approved it as a standard-the NSA paid RSA $10 million to use Dual EC DRGB as part of its RSA BSAFE cryptographic library. This meant that much of the encryption software sold by RSA would allow the NSA to break the encryption using the known backdoor
  • Kiran Kuppa on 22 Jan 14
     
    The RSA concerns started with documents leaked by Edward Snowden and published by the New York Times in December. These indicated that the NSA had worked with the National Institute of Standards and Technology to create a "backdoor" in the Dual Elliptic Curve Deterministic Random Bit Generator (Dual_EC_DRBG), a pseudorandom number generator designated as a standard for encryption. According to the documents, in 2004-even before NIST approved it as a standard-the NSA paid RSA $10 million to use Dual EC DRGB as part of its RSA BSAFE cryptographic library. This meant that much of the encryption software sold by RSA would allow the NSA to break the encryption using the known backdoor
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