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GnuPG 1.4.16 released

jezuch — Mon, 23 Dec 2013 08:24:14 +0000

> Is this the day when unrealistic schemes become reality?

This is not new, really. By far.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tempest_(codename)

"The term "Tempest" is often used broadly for the entire field of emission security or emanations security (EMSEC). The term "Tempest" was coined in the late 1960s and early 1970s (...)"

Although it was secret for a long time.

GnuPG 1.4.16 released

theophrastus — Sun, 22 Dec 2013 02:34:18 +0000

Any elliptical curve based keys in GnuPG with this one yet?
(ECDSA ... ECC.something; anything but the NIST recommended forms?)

There is a security group at a university in Aachen that assures me that these methods are somehow significantly more difficult for even the bigboys to crack. And i thought that PGP/GPG were supposed to include those as some point.

GnuPG 1.4.16 released

dashesy — Sat, 21 Dec 2013 17:55:54 +0000

Russian version of smoke signals :)

GnuPG 1.4.16 released

mathstuf — Fri, 20 Dec 2013 19:18:54 +0000

Just wait until we start detecting what people are saying by measuring changes in the air's alcohol content around them[1]!

[1]http://arstechnica.com/science/2013/12/two-researchers-se...

GnuPG 1.4.16 released

ebirdie — Fri, 20 Dec 2013 14:10:32 +0000

Is this the day when unrealistic schemes become reality? Sigh! Yesterday I saw the acoustic hack bit of the GnuPG announcement while checking Debian upgrades in. My first reaction, WHAT, no? Today seeing this announcement was really nice to see for further information, but news about acoustic hacks weren't over for the day.

A finnish weekly journal of technology and economics had a news bit (sorry, in finnish) that a german team has made an ultrasonic network with couple laptops. The journal links to an article of Scientific America. The journal only briefly mentions the original source, which seems to be this.

As a related topic to acoustic computer communications, about a month ago there was this high flying article about "BadBIOS" in ArsTechnica, where a security researcher thought that he's computers were hit by a firmware malware using ultrasonic communication for spreading. This sounded pretty far reaching then, but now one or two steps closer to reality, but...pretty interesting.

Snowden Privacy Blankets

deconfliction — Thu, 19 Dec 2013 18:55:45 +0000

This hilariously hit the news just days after Keith Alexander went on 60 minutes, and called Snowden a "weirdo" for using a "Snowden Privacy Blanket" with his laptop. God must have a sense of humor.