Government


Protesters, Crypto-Partiers Rally Against Surveillance at U.S. Capitol

Washington D.C. – Saturday marked the twelve-year anniversary of the initial signing of the controversial US PATRIOT Act, the anti-terrorism bill signed into law shortly after the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001, sections of which have allegedly given federal law enforcement the authority to surreptitiously collect the digital communications data of millions of innocent U.S. citizens.


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 […]

There’s been no shortage of discussion and debate in recent week about the possibility that the NSA has intentionally weakened some cryptographic algorithms and cipher suites in order to give it an advantage in its intelligence-gathering operations. If you subscribe to the worst-case scenario line of thinking, then most of the commonly used ciphers are […]