Monthly Archives: November 2005

An Assessment of the Oracle Password Hashing Algorithm

Joshua Wright from SANS Institute and Carlos Cid from Information Security Group, University of London published recently interesting article about number of weaknesses of the Oracle Password Hashing Algorithm.

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U.S. Mulls New Digital Signature Standard

A shockwave reverberated throughout the data security community earlier this year when a team of Chinese researchers exposed a flaw in the 10-year-old Secure Hashing Algorithm, or SHA-1, which has long served as the official standard for creating and verifying … Continue reading

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Sony CD Protection Sparks Security Concerns

Sony uses a cloaking tool known as a rootkit to shield its copy protection software on its CDs, a technique that is not inherently dangerous, but is often used by virus writers to obscure their activities on a computer. While … Continue reading

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Cryptographic Hash Workshop

NIST hosts a Cryptographic Hash Workshop on Oct. 31-Nov. 1, 2005 to solicit public input in how best to respond to the current state of research in area of cryptographic hash functions (October 31 – November 1, 2005 , NIST, … Continue reading

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