[ad] 09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0 This is everywhere today. Every major news site has this ‘magic’ number in it. Digg.com had stories with more than 24.000 diggs (that’s actually the first time I see that many). In case you’ve been in a cave […]
Cryptography
Let’s Digest Some Messages – md5 Hash Checker for Windows
[ad] Of course it’s a small article about md5… I really wondered how many Micro$oft Windows users check the md5 sum of programs that they download from the internet… Do you really trust that much the mirror websites? Even I could set up a mirror website for any download website and spread malformed packages to […]
SHA-1 Cracked – Old News, But People Still Talk
[ad] A paper about cracking SHA-1 originally surfaced in 2005, from a fairly reputable scientific source in China, it was widely publicised nor talked about much. But then recently, just last month China managed to make a wave out of it, almost 2 years after the initial ‘report’. It was even Slashdotted on January 20th […]
Malicious Cryptography – Cryptology & Cryptovirology
I know this maybe old news for some of you, however, I just got the chance of reading this great article on Security Focus (it’s been 2 weeks since I add it to my Favorites) This two part article discusses some good points of Cryptology, more precisely in the field of Cryptovirology. Writing a virus […]