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ASUS Eee PC / Intel Atom: Disk Encryption Performance
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| While the ASUS Eee PC 901 doesn't have its solid-state disk drives encrypted
| by default, if you are storing any potentially sensitive information on this
| netbook -- or any mobile device for that matter -- you really should encrypt
| the data. When you lose a mobile device or it has been stolen, it can be a
| nightmare if your banking information was stored on there or even just
| passwords to your Internet accounts. However, what is the performance cost
| for fully encrypting a hard drive on one of these Intel Atom computers? In
| this article we are looking at the performance impact of fully encrypting the
| solid-state storage versus an unencrypted LVM within Ubuntu Linux.
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http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=intel_atom_disk&num=1
Recent:
Spied on despite encryption
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| In order to prevent misuse it is always advisable to use encrypted
| connections for sensitive activities, like online banking, or reading emails
| at services like Google Mail. However, in certain circumstances, attackers
| may still gain access to bank or email account data, despite the encryption.
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http://www.heise.de/english/newsticker/news/114307/from/rss09
Skype won't say if it decrypts VoIP calls
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| To allay fears that the calls might not be secure from law enforcement, Skype
| should open its platform to evaluation by trusted, credible industry experts,
| he says.
|
| Endler says it's equally difficult to know whether commercial VoIP vendors
| leave open the possibility of turning encryption keys over to law
| enforcement.
|
| In the United States, the Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act
| (CALEA) forbids requiring that vendors build in back-door decryption, says
| Jim Dempsey, vice president for public policy at the Center for Democracy &
| Technology. "CALEA expressly forbids requiring anyone to be able to decrypt
| anything," he says.
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http://www.linuxworld.com.au/index.php?id=1143568778&rid=-50
Backdoor in Skype? We need an open-source replacement
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| Deliberate or just flawed?
|
| So, assuming for a moment that the claim of the Austrian police is correct,
| there are two possibilities now: (a) Either Skype made a mistake somewhere in
| the implementation of their encryption algorithms and thus allowed a
| successful attack on their protocols. Or (b) they have deliberately provided
| a backdoor for law enforcement or other agencies.
|
| [...]
|
| And of course, Skype is ubiquituous. If you want to talk to people, you need
| to use what they are using. And everyone is using Skype.
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http://www.geekzone.co.nz/foobar/5472
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