I have tried many types of encryption, and I’ve had issues with them all. For many reasons, some programs make it too complicated to access the data, while others require special software to be made available on the system so that the data could be accessed. Others require that fixed-size containers be used, which can [...]

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From the Ubuntu Geek: eCryptfs is a POSIX-compliant enterprise-class stacked cryptographic filesystem for Linux.It provides advanced key management and policy features. eCryptfs stores cryptographic metadata in the header of each file written, so that encrypted files can be copied between hosts; the file will be decryptable with the proper key, and there is no need [...]

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Source: feraga.com Howto use Cryptsetup with LUKS support. (Debian Linux). This is a short howto to describe the basic usage of Device-Mapper, DM-Crypt, and Cryptsetup to mount and use encrypted partitions and container files. This is partially in response to the recent articles about the numbers of USB flash thumbdrives that are regularly lost. If [...]

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Wireless encryption stinks. It always has. Generally, the way I secure my wireless is first to engage MAC filtering (not at all secure, but at least filters out the newbies), then I engage an SSH tunnel to a trusted box @ home with the dynamic application-level port forwarding which allows the SSH server to act [...]

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From the NewScientist Tech section: A technique for cracking computer passwords using inexpensive off-the-shelf computer graphics hardware is causing a stir in the computer security community. Elcomsoft, a software company based in Moscow, Russia, has filed a US patent for the technique. It takes advantage of the “massively parallel processing” capabilities of a graphics processing [...]

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