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  • File Vault The Following Utilities
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    File Vault HelpParisien Research Corporation Copyright (C) 1996 Harvey ParisienEmail: his software is free to use. In a recent article in Defense News (Vol 12 No 31) Aug 4-10, 1997 William Crowell, National Security Agency deputy director said 'Ifa product of 64-bit strength were used by a military org... it would take 6,000 to 7,000 years to recover just one message. ' 1. File Vault - 64-bit (8 bytes) block encryption algorithm variable length key up to 448 bits File Vault - Places a number of ...
  • Use Of The Clipper Chip
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    Encryption: Who Holds the Keys In an opinion that prophetically predated the computer age, Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis warned, "Ways may some day be developed by which the government, without removing papers from secret drawers, can reproduce them in court" (Bamford 3). For Bande is and the rest of 1920's society, such technology would seem almost magical. However, for some time now the government and everyone else can examine papers without removing them from "secret drawers". How is t...
  • Second Encryption Key From Key Escrow
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    Title: encryption, friend or foe for the people Category: Science Description: Body of paper: In the good old days a pad lock was the best thing to have to keep unwanted persons from invading your privacy. Now that we have entered the digital age, it has been more and more difficult to keep our belongings to ourselves. I have never entered to win 10 million dollars before, yet I still might have the win number for it. How, who, and where did they get my information to send me this kind of junk t...
  • Authentication Server
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    Security Terminology Define the following terms: 1. Authentication - ability to identify who it isa. ACL - (access control list) is associated w / a given resource. Describes groups, users, machines and their permissions associated with that particular resource. i. Token- one time only password key. CA- certificate of authority- creates certificates -system or entity trusted to generate and distribute digital certificates. Can be privately used or from a 3rd party e-commerce site. Verifies ident...
  • File To A Loop Device
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    . : Contents: . I. INTRO- About II. ENCRYPTING- Containers- Drives- Files APPENDIX. : I. INTRO: . [- = ] About [ = -] This is a quick rundown on how to encrypt files, containers, and drives under Linux. The use of loop back encrypted file systems and is explained and examples are given. This paper should have you encrypting in no time. The following commands were done running kernel 2.6. 9... : ENCRYPTING: . I'll outline how to create encrypted containers and drives using the loop back file syst...
  • Decryption Algorithm And The Key
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    Cryptography is the science of encoding a message into a form that is unreadable and making sure only the proper people are capable of decoding the message back into its original form. This is usually done by using an encryption algorithm and a decryption algorithm (these two are often the same) and very often a secret key. Some of the early cryptographic systems did not use a key but instead kept the algorithm itself secret. The message sender uses the encryption algorithm and the key to encode...
  • Computer Security In Business Prepared
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    Computer Security in Business Prepared by: Prepared for: It is 1994, a Russian hacker named Vladimir Levin and a group of accomplices are siting at a desk of a computer office somewhere in St. Petersburg. There, Levin electronically transfers $11 million from Citibank's New York-based mainframes to Finland, Israel, and California. This all occurred under the watch of one of Citibank's top information officers in charge of security, Colin Crook. This frightening occurrence is not a rare event; ma...
  • Public Key Encryption Algorithm
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    System Security System security is the amount of protection against unforeseen events, which might cause the system to fail. The amount of security in a given system depends upon the value of the information contained within the system. As the information becomes more valuable, the amount of money spent on protecting the information also increases. An example of this would be someone keeping their valuables in a home fire safe whereas a bank might keep their valuables in a time-controlled vault....

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