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Director Hopes 'Zero Days' Will Spark Debate on Cyberwarfare
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Director hopes 'Zero Days' will spark debate on cyberwarfare
WRAL.com BERLIN — When machines at a nuclear plant in Iran suddenly began spinning out of control six years ago, suspicion quickly fell on the United States and Israel, especially after a sophisticated virus was found that appeared to have been tailored to … Berlin: Alex Gibney Says He Is "Angry" About Cyber Warfare Secrecy BERLIN: Alex Gibney tackles cyber warfare |
The White House hopes a Friday summit between senior government officials and Silicon Valley tech leaders will find common ground on ways to work together to combat extremism and radicalization.
Government officials will seek to convince tech executives that they need to heed President Barack Obama’s call to action and step up to help the U.S. in its fight against militants. But some tech executives are still wary of assisting the government after former National Security Agency (NSA) contractor Edward Snowden leaked information about U.S. spying back in 2013.
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Data integrity vendor Guardtime hopes its newly announced protocol will replace RSA for the purposes of authentication and digital signatures, touting it as easier to manage and less vulnerable to hacking.
Called BLT, the protocol name comes from the last initials of its inventors, Ahto Buldas, Risto Laanoja and Ahto Truu, just as RSA comes from the last initials of its inventors, Ron Rivest, Adi Shamir and Leonard Adleman.
Rather than relying on public and private keys (PKI) as RSA does, BLT is based on hash-function cryptography, which requires no keys and so requires no issuing, updating or revoking of keys. As a result, it can scale to cover exabytes (1018 bytes) with little overhead, says the company’s CEO Mike Gault. And there are no cryptographic secrets to be compromised.
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