Last November, when the glaring weaknesses in wireless LAN security became apparent, the U.S. Army decided it needed to beef up the security of a battlefield wireless LAN system it was about to deploy ...

My new Pismo came with IE 4.51 installed. It seems pretty stable, so I'm not planning to upgrade to IE 5 for the time being. However, I noticed that my version of IE has only 40-bit encryption, and ...

I believe it's included in IE. The export restrictions that limited Windows and IE to 40-bit crypto out of the box were lifted a while ago.

In the previous blog post, “Embedded Security Using Cryptography”, we looked at how cryptography can be used for securing assets in embedded systems and ensure confidentiality, integrity and ...

The federal government’s recent decision to adopt the Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) for securing sensitive information will trigger a move from the aging Data Encryption Standard (DES) in the ...

The new $189 "Privacy Phone" comes with VPN, 128-bit encryption, and other tricks aimed at keeping you safe and anonymous. Lance Whitney is a freelance technology ...

Data encryption performs two purposes: it protects data against internal prying eyes, and it protects data against external threats (hacking, theft of backup tapes, etc.) Encryption in the database ...

Matias has put its new wireless keyboard, the Secure Pro, up for pre-order on its website. With the keyboard, which is compact in nature and has a no-nonsense business design, comes wireless ...

The OnSpec xSil261 from IntellaSys targets UDMA CompactFlash memory or IDE/ATAPI hard disk drives using a USB 2.0 interface. The OnSpec xSil261 controller chip from IntellaSys features a 128-bit, ...