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Peter Suciu for redOrbit.com – Your Universe Online Breaking a code in a competition is usually something that could merit a disqualification, unless that competition happens to be in the field of code breaking. On Monday, it was announced a team from the City of London School has broken a code and in the process won a national competition, now in its 11th year. The event was organized by Southampton University with support from Britain's Government Communication Headquarters (GCHQ)...

Lee Rannals for redOrbit.com - Your Universe Online A World War II message found in a fireplace attached to the remains of a dead carrier pigeon is believed to have been decrypted. A Canadian World War II enthusiast says that he has deciphered the message after realizing that a code book held the key to the encryption. Gord Young, editor for the history group Lakefield Heritage Research, says the 1944 note uses a simple World War I code to give information about German troop positions...

redOrbit Staff & Wire Reports - Your Universe Online A coded message found attached to the remains of a D-Day military carrier pigeon may never be decoded, Britain’s top code-breakers say. The pigeon's skeleton was discovered in 1982 in the chimney of a 17th-century home in Surrey when the homeowner, a retired British probation officer named David Martin, was renovating the fireplace. The hand-written message was found in a red capsule still attached to the pigeon's leg bone....

Cryptology is one of the most important techniques in the field of information security, which provides an abundance of services including privacy, data integrity, authentication, access control, anonymity, non-repudiation. The high level of security, efficiency and ease of implementation of a cryptosystem are the main design aims of cryptographers. Prof. ZHANG Huanguo and his group from Key Laboratory of Aerospace Information Security and Trusted Computing of Ministry of Education, Wuhan...

Closing the critical security gap in predictable communication of weak encryption keys, MerlinCryption’s enterprise solution utilizes variable key length and a random data generator technology, which requires no key communication. Austin, Texas (PRWEB) June 28, 2012 Closing the critical security gap in predictable communication of weak encryption keys, MerlinCryption’s enterprise solution utilizes variable key length and a random data generator technology, which requires no key...

SINGAPORE, June 5, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- People that are concerned with privacy online or perhaps tired of their web-based email being used for marketing purposes now have a new, easy to use solution. Enterprises and individuals can maintain privacy with an affordable application for both Macintosh and Windows. Deadbolt LT empowers users and organizations to take control of their data and maintain their privacy even when using services like Dropbox, Gmail, or their favorite SaaS....

SINGAPORE, April 10, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Singapore-based Rune Information Security Corporation Pte. Ltd. is pleased to announce the availability of its Deadbolt encryption solution designed to make data theft through e-mail and messaging intercept a thing of the past for both Mac and Windows users. Simply put, Rune has designed Deadbolt implementing both standards based OpenPGP and optional, one-time pad for e-mail, messaging, and data. The 'pad' alludes to the unbreakable and...

Encryption method by RUB is becoming international standard An increasing number of everyday devices such as car keys, smart phones and even medical implants need protection from hackers. The encryption method PRESENT is the smallest cipher for such cost and energy constrained applications. It is the result of a collaboration between the Ruhr-Universität Bochum (Germany), Orange Labs France and the Technical University of Denmark. The cipher design is characterized by its hardware...

SINGAPORE, Dec. 22, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Rune, an information security firm committed to empowering the defense of privacy, today announced that John Haggard has been appointed to its Board of Advisors. Mr. Haggard brings to Rune an extensive background in the information security sector. He is a pioneer in the design, development, and delivery of advanced state-of-the-art information security products in many different areas that include international, corporate, government, and...

Less and less of today’s computing is done on desktop computers; cloud computing, in which operations are carried out on a network of shared, remote servers, is expected to rise as the demand for computing power increases. This raises some crucial questions about security: Can we, for instance, perform computations on data stored in “the cloud” without letting anyone else see our information? Research carried out at the Weizmann Institute and MIT is moving us closer to the ability to...