Self-escrow will be a principal concern of many large corporations that want to provide corporate data recovery, protect against loss of proprietary data from use of an outside escrow agent, and simply for reasons of efficiency and cost. Hence self-escrow must be considered as an acceptable option. Escrow requires less ...

In a key management infrastructure (KMI) based on public key cryptography, each user has one or more pairs of public and private keys. The public and private keys differ in such a way that it is computationally infeasible to determine the private key from the public key. This allows ...

Government can no longer monopolize state of the art cryptography. It is no longer acceptable to argue that the only information of a compelling national security interest is government information. It is unrealistic to believe that government can produce solutions which keep ahead of today's rapidly changing information technology. ...

In a world where the reliance on electronic data transmission and processing is becoming every day more prevalent, it is of critical importance for organizations to guarantee the integrity and confidentiality of mission critical information exchanged over communication networks. Contrary to a false perception, intercepting information transmitted over an optical fibre ...

Most people concerned with cryptographic policy followed the Clipper Chip debate and many argued that a mandatory requirement to disallow citizens from using all cryptography other than that to which the government would have backdoor access would be a violation of civil rights. The Clinton administration contended that it was ...

The people who break cryptographic systems don't follow rules; they cheat. They can attack a system using techniques the designers never thought of. Art thieves have burgled homes by cutting through the walls with a chain saw. Home security systems, no matter how expensive and sophisticated, won't stand a chance ...

Newsday has a story that, if true, is fascinating. They are reporting that using technology supplied by Iran, Hezbollah fighters were able to listen in on Israeli radio communications. They of course used this intel to evade the advancing units and counter attack. “We were able to ...