Archive for the 'encryption' Category

[How to Encrypt and Decrypt Strings in JAVA using Standard Java JCE library] Cipher : Java Glossary

Sunday, October 2nd, 2011

Here’s how to encrypt and decrypt a message using CipherOutputStream/ CipherInputStream The methods used are all part of Sun’s JCE. Sun’s JCE documenation is all but useless. You pretty well have to Google the web to find sample code to use these…

[How to Encrypt and Decrypt Strings in JAVA using Standard Java JCE library] Cipher : Java Glossary

Sunday, October 2nd, 2011

Here’s how to encrypt and decrypt a message using CipherOutputStream/ CipherInputStream The methods used are all part of Sun’s JCE. Sun’s JCE documenation is all but useless. You pretty well have to Google the web to find sample code to use these…

Dropbox Lack of Security – Miguel de Icaza

Thursday, April 21st, 2011

“This announcement means that Dropbox never had any mechanism to prevent employees from accessing your files, and it means that Dropbox never had the crypto smarts to ensure the privacy of your files and never had the smarts to only decrypt the files f…

Electric Alchemy: Cracking Passwords in the Cloud: Breaking PGP on EC2 with EDPR

Wednesday, November 4th, 2009

article tells you that using elcomsoft tools, you can brute-force PGP pass-phrase in ~120 days for ~$9K on 10 EC2 instances.

Encrypted Root LVM | HowtoForge – Linux Howtos and Tutorials

Thursday, May 15th, 2008

Article shows how to encrypt LVM physical voulme partition.

md5 reverse lookup

Friday, January 25th, 2008

useful for simple things; some cool links