Protecting Files at Home Using Encrypted Containers - Many people encrypt partitions or drives to keep data safe, but if you're looking for something a little simpler but still safe, try using containers.

Implementation of Rijndael in JavaScript. Think: AJAX, encryption on the client side, no plain text passwords going to the server. [Tagged: javascript ajax aes crypto programming ]

Brian Gladman's AES code is the fastest free version I know of, is widely used, and has a BSD-like license. [Tagged: aes crypto c programming ]

I2P is an anonymous p2p network layer capable of running anonyizing internet services that run over it (IRC, FTP, NNTP, HTTP, BitTorrent and even games like FreeCiv). I2P functionality is currently apart of the Azureus 2.3.0.0 core. A variety of applications are being or have been developed for I2P including distributed content stores, searchable p2p, anonymous BitTorrent clients, anonymous newsgroup servers and more. [Tagged: anonymous p2p bittorrent ]

Strongspace is a secure place to gather, store, back-up and share any type of file with your co-workers, friends and family. You can upload, download and manage your files over SFTP (Secure File Transfer Protocol), HTTPS (web browser access over Secure Socket Layers) and even RSYNC over SSH (a rapid, low bandwidth way to "sync"). [Tagged: textdrive security storage backup ]

Phil Zimmermann, creator of the wildly popular Pretty Good Privacy e-mail encryption program, is debuting his new project, which he hopes will do for internet phone calls what PGP did for e-mail. Zimmermann has developed a prototype program for encrypting voice over internet protocol, or VOIP, which he will announce at the BlackHat security conference in Las Vegas this week. [Tagged: voip crypto pgp ]

Security architecture for hypervisors (sHype), integrated into Xen - IBM's TJ Watson Research Center has designed and developed a security architecture for hypervisors (called sHype). sHype is based on mandatory access controls (MAC). It allows Xen to use access rules (formal policy) to control both the sharing of virtual resources as well as the information flow between domains. It is modeled after the Flask security architecture as implemented in SELinux. [Tagged: sHype selinux mac acl xen ]

Intel Quietly Adds DRM to CPUs - interesting note on Bruce Schneier's blog. Keywords for Google: LaGrande, Active Management Technology, privacy related examples.And some questions for home work:

• Apple switching to Intel
• Apple Japan will open Music Store

[Tagged: drm privacy intel apple ]

Asynchronous crypto layer for Linux kernel 2.6 supports following features:

• multiple asynchronous crypto device queues
• crypto session routing
• crypto session binding
• modular load balancing
• crypto session batching genetically implemented by design
• crypto session priority
• different kinds of crypto operation(RNG, asymmetrical crypto, HMAC and any other)

HIFN, VIA, FCRYPT drivers created for acrypto at http://tservice.net.ru/~s0mbre/archive/acrypto/drivers/

Vlastimil Klima: Finding MD5 Collisions - a Toy For a Notebook, March 5, 2005 Vlastimil Klima recently described his own research and experiments and allegedly is able to produce collisions on an off-the-shelf 1.6 GHz Pentium M at a rate of one every 8 hours.