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Global Crypto Survey Proves Govt Backdoors Completely Pointless
Like playing a frustrating game of whack-a-mole
In 1999, when a fierce crypto war was raging between governments and developers, researchers undertook a global survey of available encryption products.
Now security guru Bruce Schneier and other experts have repeated the exercise, and it spells bad news for those demanding backdoors in today’s cryptography.
The latest study analyzed 865 hardware and software products incorporating encryption from 55 countries, with a third of them coming from the US. That’s up from 805 in 35 countries in 1999.
The goal of the survey is to catalogue available products and applications, rather than score or rate them. The team did not have the time to evaluate each system in depth. One thing the list does demonstrate, though, is the wide availability of software with builtin encryption, distributed from all corners of the globe…
New Survey Suggests US Encryption Ban Would Just Send Market Overseas
If the US government tries to strong-arm American companies into ending the sale of products or applications with unbreakable encryption, the technology won’t disappear, a group of researchers conclude in a new report. It would still be widely available elsewhere.
Some US law enforcement officials argue that unbreakable encryption is interfering with legal surveillance of suspected criminals and terrorists. And some members of Congress are pushing for a nationwide requirement that encryption allow for law-enforcement access.
But the three researchers—Bruce Schneier, a cryptologist and fellow at the Berkman Center for Internet & Society, Kathleen Seidel, an independent researcher, and Saranya Vijayakumar of Harvard—compiled a list of at least 865 hardware and software encryption products available in 55 different countries. More than 500 of them come from outside of the United States…
New Report Contends Mandatory Crypto Backdoors Would Be Futile
An estimated 63 percent of the encryption products available today are developed outside US borders, according to a new report that takes a firm stance against the kinds of mandated backdoors some federal officials have contended are crucial to ensuring national security.
The report, prepared by researchers Bruce Schneier, Kathleen Seidel, and Saranya Vijayakumar, identified 865 hardware or software products from 55 countries that incorporate encryption. Of them, 546 originated from outside the US. The most common non-US country was Germany, a country that has publicly disavowed the kinds of backdoors …
Press Release: International Encryption Product Survey Finds 546 Non-US Products from 54 Countries
Findings point to negative impact on US Companies and Internet users
A newly completed international survey of encryption products found 546 different products from 54 different countries outside the US. This survey was headed by Bruce Schneier, as part of his Fellowship at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University.
The findings of this survey identified 619 entities that sell encryption products. Of those 412, or two-thirds, are outside the U.S.-calling into question the efficacy of any US mandates forcing backdoors for law-enforcement access. It also showed that anyone who wants to avoid US surveillance has over 567 competing products to choose from. These foreign products offer a wide variety of secure applications—voice encryption, text message encryption, file encryption, network-traffic encryption, anonymous currency—providing the same levels of security as US products do today…
Video: Incident Response Orchestration: Ask Bruce, Episode Five
Organizations are overwhelmed with security alerts—far more than they can reasonably manage. Incident response orchestration and automation can go a long way in helping teams resolve security events faster and more effectively.
Bruce Schneier: The Security Mindset
Networked technology increasingly touches all aspects of our lives. When essential systems are connected to a networked environment, it becomes important to make sure that they’re protected from attack. We continue improving the mathematics and algorithms used to secure these systems, but attackers tend to exploit weaknesses in how the math-ematics and technologies are used.
As effective security becomes more vital, many computer science students are becoming interested in making security part of their education. I talked to Bruce Schneier, a leading cybersecurity thinker, and asked him how students might prepare themselves for a career in this field. See the entire interview at …
Video: The Security Mindset
Security guru Bruce Schneier talks with Charles Severance about what it takes to think like a security expert.
Data and Goliath: The Hidden Battles to Collect Your Data and Control Your World (Review)
Data and Goliath—the very title invites you to read and have fun. But make no mistake—this is not a whimsical book. Rather,
Data and Goliath: The Hidden Battles to Collect Your Data and Control Your World, by Bruce Schneier, is sobering and frightening. When Schneier, whom Wired magazine called “one of the world’s foremost security experts,” writes, “[w]e are living in the golden age of surveillance,” he does not mean it approvingly.
Schneier points out that this golden age of surveillance did not happen by accident. Indeed, we Americans have chosen convenience and safety over privacy. For the convenience of cell phones, the Internet, the Cloud, and other technologies, we have given corporations the right to know virtually everything about us at every moment of every day. And, for safety from all things dangerous, such as child abductors, drug dealers, and certainly terrorists, we have relinquished our privacy, along with our civil liberties…
The Security Reading Room: The Best Information Security Books of 2015
Excerpt
Data and Goliath: The Hidden Battles to Collect Your Data and Control Your World: Bruce Schneier could have justifiably written an angry diatribe full of vitriol against President Obama, his administration, and the NSA for their wholesale spying on innocent Americans and violations of myriad laws and the Constitution. Instead, he has written a thoroughly convincing and brilliant book about big data, mass surveillance and the ensuing privacy dangers.
Audio: Bruce Schneier on the Golden Age of Surveillance
Listen to the Audio on TheTechnoskeptic.com
Internet security expert, privacy advocate, and author Bruce Schneier speaks with the Technoskeptic about the public-private surveillance partnership that monitors everything we do, and what needs to happen in order to restore our privacy.
Sidebar photo of Bruce Schneier by Joe MacInnis.