The science of developing secret codes and/or the use of those codes in encryption systems. See cryptography.
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- Domino, cryptology, and response
- Domino, cryptology, and responseCrypto futureIt's getting to the point where you might as well just encrypt the entire network. That way you can connect with any old technology, and your communication will always be encrypted. I thought it would be a great idea to do this with WiMAX - so...
- Discussion threads 2008-11-05
- Domino, cryptology, and response
- On coolthreads servers the performance effect of turning on Domino cryptology can be zero -and that radically changes the cost picture when you compare hosting alternatives for secure installations. by Paul Murphy
- Blog posts 2008-11-05
- KPMSS Encryptor 1 (Windows)
- This program uses the AES government standard encryption to secure your data. This easy to use program allows multiple files and folders to be selected and is even smart enough to remember your selections. While encrypting there is a window form that displays the progress notes and the option to...
- Software downloads 2008-08-08
- Reformed computer criminals - your country needs you
- And trust me, they really do. Over the last year, the UK and US Governments have had an awful problem in keeping basic data protection rules in check, almost to the point where they may have been broadcasting over the radio minutes of the intelligence committee meetings. ...
- Blog posts 2008-06-26
- Betting that Apple will make PPC laptops again
- But you won't be able to buy one any time soon. Apple says it bought P.A. Semi to get its hands on some patents and a bunch of very bright engineers who are already used to working together. I'm sure that's true - but...
- Blog posts 2008-04-26
- What 2.484564472E24 means for internet security
- There are, it seems to me, only three kinds of cryptology systems known: there are the magic hand wave methods - like DES - which attempt to disguise the information content of the encoded message by combining information hiding typically via some form of transposition with information...
- Blog posts 2008-03-06
- What 2.484564472E24 means for internet security
- What 2.484564472E24 means for internet securityYou missed one...4) One time pads. Theoretically unbreakableAs for what 2.484564472E24 means for internet security, you didn't tell us. All you was list 2 common encoding techniques, missed off the most secure one of the lot and then babbled on about language and universal translators.Is...
- Discussion threads 2008-03-06
- The meaning of Microsoft Server 2008
- Server 2008 looks like a bit of an odd duck - it doesn't meet the promises made for "Longhorn" and "Blackcombe", it's probably neither more reliable nor more efficient than its 64 bit 2003/XP based predecessors, and unlike Vista with which it shares some code the kernel changes amount to...
- Blog posts 2008-03-03
- PCI Compliance Whitepaper
- The Payment Card Industry PCI is a coalition of credit card companies including American Express, Discover, MasterCard and Visa. The PCI has created a Data Security Standard PCI DSS which details the security requirements for credit card merchants, service providers and processors. Any organization that stores, processes or transmits cardholder...
- White papers 2008-02-25
- Picking the right IT: Are some risks worth taking?
- Challenge: pick the right information architecture for a 10 to 15 FTE research foundation. The operating budget runs around two million per year, the mandate is to hand out about one hundred million per year in health care related research grants, the scope is nominally worldwide with preference given to...
- Blog posts 2008-02-05
- Hey, I love you too, guy
- Here's a comment from not so frequent contributor "SO.CAL Guy": murph_z you should be the last person calling someone a zealot. your the biggest zealot on zdnet. your blog is near the bottom of the list for a reason. ...
- Blog posts 2008-01-24
- The 2007 IT top ten list
- If I had to pick one word to describe 2007 it would be "emergence" - lots of things that were building up to change, changed. In politics George Bush got his mojo back: from stem cells and Iraq to his policies on Russia, climate change, and oil devaluation...
- Blog posts 2007-12-27
- The T2 and media reaction
- The UltraSPARC T2 announcements back on August 7th consisted of two separate stories. The first of these involved Sun's plan to sell it into the commodity processor market. Unfortunately almost nobody in the press understood either the announcement itself or where Sun's taking this, with the straight up treatment given...
- Blog posts 2007-09-04
- Borland Software Case Study: Tubitak-Uekae
- The Scientific and Technical Research Council of Turkey-National Research Institute of Electronics and Cryptology (TUBITAK-UEKAE) is a government-owned research institute and one of Turkey's leading national defense contractors. The Council wanted to establish best practices for software Development and meet requirements on schedule and within budget. The challenge was to...
- Case studies 2007-06-28
- On re-inventing the internet
- Last week a story by Anick Jesdanun made the rounds of, according to google, 211 nominally separate news sources under the general title Reinventing the Internet. The opening paragraphs; quoted here from the Kansas City Star: Although it has taken...
- Blog posts 2007-04-18
- A stray thought about the missing Ux86
- In a conversation last week, ZDnets senior editor, David Berlind, asked me what would constitute an exciting development for x86 - and I didnt have a thought to offer. But that was then, and now? consider that nobody makes and sells an x86...
- Blog posts 2007-04-17
- Windows Vista activation cracked by brute force
- Windows Vista activation cracked by brute forcePlease provide us a few extra keys once done"Brute force" has such a pretty ring to it. Like so many other things MS related.There goes the neighborhood"Microsoft's Windows Vista activation process has been cracked - by using brute force technique"That didn't take long exactly...
- Discussion threads 2007-03-01
- Niagara2 - will blow away SQL-Server Clusters
- Once upon a time, and in a lab far far away, there was a little machine rejoicing in the name of "atchewi". Atchewi lived for throughput, and as a result I started predicting that a single 1.4Ghz UltraSPARC T1 would offer rough performance equivelance, for non floating point intensive...
- Blog posts 2006-12-11
- Uses for supercomputers
- Everybody knows what supercomputers are useful for, right? - things like weapons simulations, weather forecasting, submarine tracking, pattern matching in the biosciences, fluid dynamics and materials simulations, graph analyses, and cryptology. I think theres another one - one thats already important and likely to become more so over time,...
- Blog posts 2006-12-01
- Who's afraid of identity?
- Solaris 10 contains two enormously significant new, user accessible, technologies: dTrace and ZFS. Both of these throw out years of accumulated work-arounds to deliver simple, elegant, solutions that fit right into the best Unix design tradition of doing one thing, and doing it extremely well. Identity management needs a...
- Blog posts 2006-10-24
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