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ESFS, new perspectives for stenography ?

Tomas Touceda advertised a new project on Full Disclosure. The idea sounds good, so I will keep an eye on this very interesting project. Though I would like to know more about the methods that were used for encryption and stenography. Code and explanations are on the ESFS project homepage. Beyond the pratical usage, I [...]

Posted 14 January 2011 § Cryptography § Defense § Security ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: ,

Beware of source code (even from your favorite portal/forum/…)

The other day I stumbed upon a weired piece of software on howtoforge.com : dns-add (code on sourceforge.net). Actually, the purpose of dns-add was very intriguing : update your DNS in one command ! The output should look like this: Who would need it these days where all distros include tools and script to update [...]

Posted 24 April 2010 § Admin § Cryptography § Linux § Malware forensics § openSUSE § Security ‡ Comments (3) ° Also tagged: , , , , , , ,

SHA-1 vulnerable : consider SHA-2

Not long after md5, the computation progress has made another victim. Last week, it was made public that the SHA-1 hash function should be now considered vulnerable. The discovery bring up that the computation to create a collision hash has been dramaticaly reduced. As a consequence, the SHA-1 function can’t warranty anymore the uniquity – [...]

Posted 10 May 2009 § Cryptography § Security ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: , , , , , ,