Re: Changes in Russian licensing of cryptraghical tools

2008-01-20 Thread Alexander Klimov
On Thu, 17 Jan 2008, Gleb Paharenko wrote: > Russian government accepted a changes in laws about licensing > cryptographic algorithms and devices. The statement in Russian > language: > http://www.garant.ru/hotlaw/doc/109485.htm > > Essential in English: > > You do not need to license staff which

HOWTO: Avoid common problems when writing a security conference paper

2008-01-20 Thread Peter Gutmann
Having served on 1, 2, 3... many security conference program committees, there are some common mistakes that I've seen come up again and again in submitted papers. Every time this happens I feel I should write a HOWTO discussing these, but somehow I never get around to finishing it. Anyway, I've

Jihadi software promises secure web communication

2008-01-20 Thread David G. Koontz
http://www.stuff.co.nz/4365478a28.html An Islamist website often used by al Qaeda supporters is promoting encryption software which it says will help Islamic militants communicate with greater security on the internet. The Mujahideen Secrets 2 software was promoted as "the first Islamic program f

Re: Botnets on Unix

2008-01-20 Thread Bill Stewart
At 11:04 AM 1/18/2008, Ray Dillinger wrote: More than half the servers on the Internet - the very most desirable machines for botnet operators, because they have huge storage and huge bandwidth - run some form of Unix, and yet, since 1981 and the Morris Worm, you've never heard of a botnet compo