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Smart Cards Arm Against Decryption Attacks
News Now that it has received needed patents, Cryptography Research will embark on a more aggressive effort to license technology that can protect devices from differential power analysis, a type of decryption attack.
[April 19, 2004, 9:35]
New Decryption Code Underscores DVD Security Weakness
News MIT student Keith Winstein and alum Marc Horowitz say they're out to prove a point: Publishing code that decrypts and plays DVD movies is not a crime. In their case, they assert it's about teaching copyright issues and is thus protected under the...
[March 8, 2001, 10:19]
RIP Bill Comes Under Fresh Attack
News The report states that proposed decryption powers included within the Regulation of Investigatory Powers (RIP) Bill are in breach of human rights laws because of a recommendation that law enforcers have the power to imprison anyone who does not...
[March 22, 2000, 11:50]
Watch Out - Your Data May Be Kidnapped
News Small and medium-sized companies are being advised to back up data if they want to avoid the risk of ransomware — the use of malicious code to hijack user files, encrypt them and then demand payment in exchange for the decryption key.
[July 24, 2006, 17:40]
Police Want Power To Seize Encryption Keys
Talkback someone just out of Alevels says "its to do with making your data so no one can read it without a decryption key" senior decision maker "ohh we cant have that, we will make it illegal for people to hide their data!
[August 18, 2006, 13:52]
Surveillance: Straw Petitioned On Commerce Bill Controversy
News The group is campaigning for better e-commerce policy and is unhappy with a clause in the e-commerce bill which gives law enforcers the right to demand decryption keys from suspects. Critics argue this reverses the burden of proof as suspects are...
[September 27, 1999, 11:25]
Big Brother Plans Pushed Through Parliament
News Part three of the e-communications bill forces suspects to hand over decryption keys or face up to two years in prison, and according to legal experts reverses the burden of proof, or the rule that the accused are innocent until proven guilty.
[November 17, 1999, 15:28]
Government To Create 'snoop Unit'
News Despite reports the government is to fund the unit to the tune of £20m, confusion over who will have responsibility for the decryption unit was apparent Monday. The Cabinet Office published a report in May calling for "a technical assistance centre...
[September 7, 1999, 10:49]
A Year Ago: Big Brother Plans Pushed Through Parliament
News Part three of the e-communications bill forces suspects to hand over decryption keys or face up to two years in prison, and according to legal experts reverses the burden of proof, or the rule that the accused are innocent until proven guilty.
[November 17, 2000, 6:00]
Government Accused Of Hidden E-commerce Agenda
News Key escrow -- where e-commerce firms would be forced to lodge decryption keys with a third party -- has been the most controversial e-policy of government to date. Part three of the e-communications bill, heavily criticised for threatening...
[November 4, 1999, 12:16]
Project Trawler: Cyber Crime In The UK
News Abbot wants changes to the Police and Criminal Evidence Act that would force suspects to give up decryption keys when under investigation. Report author David Hart acknowledged these changes were not as strong as originally hoped, "Initially we...
[June 22, 1999, 17:05]
Pressure Grows On Government To Scrap Snooping Bill
News The BCC is also concerned that the method recommended by government for accessing decryption keys is unworkable in a business environment and worries that government has not put in adequate security measures to protect keys.
[June 7, 2000, 8:44]
E-bill Reverses Burden Of Proof, Says Expert
News Under government proposals, the police will have the power to demand individuals hand over decryption keys if they are under suspicion. If someone who didn't like me sent me encrypted child pornography and tipped off the police, they could come...
[September 23, 1999, 15:44]
Encryption Crackdown Looms
News Gregg is now proposing that US government officials should have access to decryption tools when the case is deemed to be a matter of national security. He said that the developers of encryption products "have as much at risk as we have at risk as a...
[September 14, 2001, 16:53]
New Surveillance Bill Comes Under Fire
News According to Caspar Bowden of the Foundation for Information Policy Research (FIPR), RIP is totally unworkable and unjust: "The DTI jettisoned decryption powers from its e-Communications Bill last year because it did not believe that a law which...
[February 10, 2000, 16:27]
DVD Encryption Break Is A Good Thing
News A clever enough hacker with good enough debugging tools will always be able to reverse-engineer the algorithm, get the key, or just capture the plaintext after decryption. So the decryption key is available, in the clear, to anyone who knows where...
[November 12, 1999, 9:52]
Surveillance: Government Plans E-surveillance - Part 2
News The industry can claim something of a victory in getting the government to drop key escrow -- the system that gives law enforcers mandatory access to decryption keys. Under the e-commerce bill, which is currently under consultation, Police will...
[September 27, 1999, 11:25]
Australia Won't Disclose Stance On Encryption
News Although "over-the-counter" decryption tools are readily available over the Internet, "we use the same tools for troubleshooting on our own networks.to not allow vendors to distribute them is impossible," she told ZDNet Australia.
[September 21, 2001, 10:32]
RIP Act Gives Police Power To Decrypt Data
News According to Clayton's blog, there are some defences in the statute to failing to comply with a notice — one of which is that you can claim to have forgotten the passphrase for the decryption key. The spokesman argued that the process was adequate...
[October 3, 2007, 16:14]
Americans Support A Ban On 'uncrackable' Encryption
News This winter the Home Office is scheduled to enforce the final stages of the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act (RIPA), which will grant law enforcement authorities the power to demand decryption keys from the place where data is encrypted.
[September 18, 2001, 14:57]
