Pingster writes « Next week, ICICS 2002 will take place in Singapore. Out of 40 papers at the conference, there will be just one paper that looks at human factors. Though many people know that usability problems can render even the strongest security useless, the security community has only recently started paying attention to usability issues. More serious thinking about usability and security is desperately needed. The paper proposes ten interaction design principles. Maybe you’ll find them obvious; maybe you’ll disagree with them entirely. Great! Let’s have a discussion. » Continuer la lecture de Slashdot | Secure Interaction Design
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Slashdot | WEP Cracking for Mac OS X
Randar the Lava Liza writes « Finally there is a tool to put default Apple AirPort hardware into monitoring mode for wireless security analysis. KisMAC is a variant of Kismet that runs natively on Mac OS X. It requires a special driver to be installed to run the AirPort hardware in monitoring mode, and has built-in WEP cracking tools once enough weak packets have been sniffed. » Continuer la lecture de Slashdot | WEP Cracking for Mac OS X
Several major announcements of OpenPGP software
There were too many to post a separate entry for each one, but in the last 24 hrs. there’s been a lot of annoucements: PGP 8, WinPT installer mirror, Mac OSX GnuPG installer, etc. – a strange coincidence! Click on to read the details. Continuer la lecture de Several major announcements of OpenPGP software
[GnuPG-Devel] OpenCDK 0.3.3
This is the first public announcement for OpenCDK. It is a library to provide some basic parts of the OpenPGP Message Format (RFC2440). First the library was planned for key conversation in GnuTLS and other applications which support OpenPGP keys but after a while, I decided to include some low-level functions for file handling.
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PARC Solutions: DataGlyphs
PARC DataGlyphs are a robust and unobtrusive method of embedding computer-readable data on surfaces such as paper, labels, plastic, glass, or metal. – [i]Variante interesante de la steganografía, con que se « esconden » datos en gráficas…[/i] Continuer la lecture de PARC Solutions: DataGlyphs