News - Blog / 2007

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Experimental Quantum Attack to QKD

Interesting article published in Physical Review A by Kim. et al. on an experiment of a quantum attack to QKD. The results are in agreement with the theory, contrary to what it would seem to come from the article on Nature.
Scientific article: http://lanl.arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0611235
Physical Review A: http://scitation.aip.org/getabs/servlet/GetabsServlet
Nature: http://www.nature.com/news/2007/070423/full/070423-10.html
Cat.: QKD   -   Date: Wed, 02 May 2007 08:10:00 +0100   -  Permalink
 

Free Space QKD at 144 km

At the March 2007 meeting of the American Physical Society has been presented the result of an experiment to create QKD secret keys in free space at a distance of 144 km, this could be the first step towards ground to satellite QKD.
Scientific article: http://lanl.arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0607182
APS: http://meetings.aps.org/Meeting/MAR07/Event/63945
Comment: http://www.aip.org/pnu/2007/815.html
Cat.: QKD   -   Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2007 08:10:00 +0100   -  Permalink
 

L'Outsourcing IT: best practice e Auditing

Thursday march 8 I will be in Rome (at 14:00 Hotel Universo via Principe Amedeo 5b) to present the result of the working group AIEA / CLUSIT on outsourcing.
Cat.: News   -   Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2007 08:10:00 +0100   -  Permalink
 

La sicurezza per le PMI: l'importanza di salvaguardare le informazioni aziendali

I participated to this round table "SecurityTalk" organized by AIPSI at Infosecurity Milan on 08/02/2007. You can listen to the full session in streaming from AIPSI web site.
Cat.: News   -   Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2007 08:10:00 +0100   -  Permalink
 

DWAVE announces a public demo of their Quantum Computer - UPDATE

On February 13 and 15 there will be the first public demo of DWAVE Quantum Computer
Announcement: http://dwave.wordpress.com/2007/01/19/quantum-computing-demo-announcement/
Press Release: http://www.dwavesys.com/index.php?mact=News
Comment: http://punto-informatico.it/p.aspx?id=1892143
Comment: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/02/13/dwave_quantum/
Comment: http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/T/TECHBIT_QUANTUM_QUANDARY.
Cat.: QKD   -   Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2007 08:10:00 +0100   -  Permalink
 

New items on the UCCI.IT web site

New entries in the UCCI.IT web site: in particular the new webcasts section with RealMedia streams of seminars and other interesting audios/videos; also the training section and the front page have been updated.
Cat.: News   -   Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2007 16:10:00 +0100   -  Permalink
 

UPDATE: Oh my.. Cisco bugs!

Everybody tells me that there is no reason to worry. Very well! -- Cisco has announced (good!) some bugs for all versions of IOS, the OS of their routers. Unfortunately at first sight it looks as a very serious problem: how many will upgrade the OS? How many will put countermeasures (which are not easy and in some cases impossible)?
http://www.cisco.com/warp/public/707/cisco-sa-20070124-crafted-tcp.shtml
http://www.cisco.com/warp/public/707/cisco-sa-20070124-crafted-ip-option.shtml
Cat.: Security   -   Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2007 09:10:00 +0100   -  Permalink
 

Whitepaper on QKD by Secoqc

The Secoqc project has published a whitepaper on QKD. My comment? ...I am not very convinced by this whitepaper http://lanl.arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0701168, have a look at my whitepapers instead.
Cat.: QKD   -   Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2007 14:10:00 +0100   -  Permalink
 

NIST announces Draft Requirements and Evaluation Criteria for New Hash Algorithms

NIST Wants Comments on Proposed Hash Algorithm Requirements and Evaluation Criteria
The National Institute of Standards and Technology is planning a competition to develop one or more cryptographic hash algorithms to augment and revise the current Secure Hash Standard (Federal Information Processing Standard 180-2). As a first step in this process, NIST is publishing draft minimum acceptability requirements, submission requirements, and evaluation criteria for candidate algorithms (See the Federal Register Announcement on http://www.nist.gov/hash-function), and requests public comment by April 27, 2007.
See also: http://www.csrc.nist.gov/pki/HashWorkshop/index.html
Cat.: Crypto   -   Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2007 08:10:00 +0100   -  Permalink
 

IEEE P1619 abandons LRW

On August 30, 2006 the IEEE P1619 group which is writing the standard on bulk disk encryption has abandoned the LRW mode because of some weaknesses and has substituted it with the mode XTS-AES (see also my article Attacchi ai FileSystem Cifrati, ICTSecurity-2006-46).
Links: http://grouper.ieee.org/groups/1619/email/msg00962.html
http://grouper.ieee.org/groups/1619/email/msg00588.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEEE_P1619#LRW_issue
http://www.ucci.it/docs/ICTSecurity-2006-46.pdf.
Cat.: Crypto   -   Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2007 12:10:00 +0100   -  Permalink
 

idQuantique announces a new hybrid implementation of QKD

idQuantique announces a new hybrid implementation for the Australian Stock Exchange Senetas which allows to use QKD keys in Senetas' 1Gb-ehthernet link encryptors.
Press Release: http://www.idquantique.com/news/files/Release_joint_venture.pdf.
Cat.: QKD   -   Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2007 14:10:00 +0100   -  Permalink
 

Andrea Pasquinucci's blog is born

Andrea Pasquinucci has finally decided to add a new section of News/Blog to the UCCI.IT web-site. More ...
Cat.: News   -   Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2007 14:00:00 +0100   -  Permalink
 

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