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BitTorrent develops secure, decentralized chat program using public-key crypto
2013-12-20 19:20:49| InfoWorld: Top News
BitTorrent, the company behind the popular file sharing protocol with the same name, is developing a secure chat application that will encrypt all communications between users and won't use any central server to route messages. The company announced that it planned to develop the secure messaging product, called BitTorrent Chat, in September. However, at that time there were no technical details available about it's possible implementation.
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RSA Warns Customers Off Suspected NSA-Tainted Crypto Tools
2013-09-21 14:00:00| TechNewsWorld
Security firm RSA has advised its customers not to use its BSafe security software products. This follows an announcement issued by NIST not to use a security standard it designed and published. The standard is the Dual Elliptic Curve Deterministic Random Bit Generator. The Dual_EC_DRBG is believed to contain an NSA backdoor that would in essence nullify the standard's security.
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Lavabit, Silent Circle Shut Down: Crypto In Spotlight
2013-08-09 12:51:00| TechWeb
Two encrypted email services shut the doors; gag order clouds details of apparent U.S. government interest related to Snowden case.
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Facebook's outmoded Web crypto opens door to NSA spying
2013-06-28 19:54:17| CNET News.com
It's relatively easy for the National Security Agency's spooks to break outdated Web encryption after vacuuming up data from fiber taps, cryptographers say. But Facebook is still using it. [Read more]
Data, meet spies: The unfinished state of Web crypto
2013-06-26 21:35:37| CNET News.com
Many large Web companies have failed to adopt a decades-old encryption technology to safeguard confidential user communications. Google is a rare exception, and Facebook is about to follow suit. [Read more]
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