For the Forum EPFL 2014 job fair, we created a crypto challenge—in the spirit of CTF hacking contests—and offered to award a quadcopter drone to
Category: Crypto
Heartbleed in a Nutshell
Since Monday, April 7, the Internet is being rocked by the news about Heartbleed (CVE_2014- 0160), a serious vulnerability in the popular OpenSSL crypto library. Our
NORX for CAESAR
NORX is a new cipher designed by Philipp Jovanovic, Samuel Neves, and yours truly (in this order). NORX’ features make it superior to legacy algorithms
TRUDEVICE @ Freiburg
On December 12-13, I attended The TRUDEVICE workshop in Freiburg. There, experts in hardware security from various domains met to discuss methods to increase the
OpenSSH hardening for cloud machine – Two-factor authentication – part 2
I enthusiastically use two-factor authentication whenever possible because static passwords aren’t the best mechanism to mitigate risk… Traditional passwords are vulnerable to social engineering, key-loggers,
cb0cat
I’m happy to present a guest post by my friend Markku-Juhani O. Saarinen about cb0cat, a new tool he’s releasing, and a project sponsored by