The Electronic Frontier Foundation, along with the American Civil Liberties Union, filed an amicus brief yesterday explaining the Fifth Amendment privilege against self-incrimination prohibits compelled decryption.
As the stunning revelations about the NSA’s collection methods and capabilities continue to mount, two secure email providers that have shut down their services in recent months have formed a new alliance to develop and deploy a new secure email platform that will be resistant to surveillance and back doors. The Dark Mail Alliance, formed […]
Experts hope the upcoming audit of TrueCrypt will concerns over its wonky open source license to rest.
A movement to audit TrueCrypt has raised more than $50,000 and been endorsed by a member of the anonymous TrueCrypt development team. A separate audit of the software, meanwhile, gives it a clean bill of health.
Dennis Fisher and Mike Mimoso discuss the big stories of the last couple of weeks, including the grassroots effort to audit the TrueCrypt source code, the Apple iMessage security model and Yahoo enabling SSL by default.
Open source encryption software TrueCrypt is now under the microscope for odd behavior from its Windows version and a wonky license governing its use.
The Apple iMessage protocol has been shrouded in secrecy for years now, but a pair of security researchers have reverse-engineered the protocol and found that Apple controls the encryption key infrastructure for the system and therefore has the ability to read users’ text messages–or decrypt them and hand them over at the order of a […]
Yahoo’s decision to turn SSL on by default for its email users is being met with halfhearted applause by the security industry.
Lavabit, the now-shuttered secure email provider that has become something of a rallying point for privacy advocates and security experts in the ongoing NSA surveillance saga, is giving its former users until Thursday night to change their passwords on the service. They will then have a short window to download their email archives and get […]
WhatsApp, a popular mobile message application, suffers from crypto implementation vulnerability that leaves messages exposed.
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