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The Obama administration's calls for backdoors echo the Clinton-era key escrow fiasco.
Abstract. Twenty years ago, law enforcement organizations lobbied to require data and communication services to engineer their products to guarantee law enforce
Keys hard-coded in thousands of routers, modems, IP cameras, VoIP phones and other devices can be used to launch man-in-the-middle attacks
With more than 120 people killed in Paris, US government officials are already touting the City of Light as the case against encryption.
How to encrypt local storage on your Google, Microsoft, and Apple devices.
Good history.
Apparently, intelligence services managed to penetrate the network of a major SIM card manufacturer, grab loads of SIM keys, and now we’re all liable to be listened in on. But why? What is it…
The difference between encryption and security.
If you don’t follow NSA news obsessively, you might have missed yesterday’s massive Snowden document dump from Der Spiegel. The documents provide a great deal of insight into how the NSA brea…
Best explanation of hashing/checksumming I've ever seen.
Chipmakers put in backdoors for the NSA.
UPDATE: This page has been moved, and this copy is no longer being updated. For more recent developments, see the latest version of our Encrypt the Web report. We’ve asked the companies in our Who
The Edward Snowden affair raises an obvious question: Why is encrypted e-mail so rare in the first place?
It makes online shopping, banking, and secure communications possible.
Excellent explanation of digital signatures and public-private key encryption.