The program uses the Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) to communicate with its control server whose address is 212.7.208.65 .
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In particular, China gave up a plan for its own wireless encryption standard.
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The most common means of protecting Wi-Fi networks, the Wired Equivalent Privacy encryption standard, or WEP, was broken in 2001.
Other features include full data path protection, embedded AES (Advanced Encryption Standard) engines for data security, and other resource optimization features.
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It is unclear how or if the new encryption standard will affect the U.S. government's controversial policy which severely restricts the export of encryption stronger than 56-bits.
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The new standard has everything that WPA has plus the ability to use a new encryption method dubbed Advanced Encryption Standard, considered strong enough for use by federal government agencies.
Hitachi's version "scrambles data using a password-generated key" as the data is written, and then descrambled with the key as it is retrieved using the highly-touted Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) algorithm.
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In November a pair of German computer science students made a critical first step toward cracking the Wi-Fi Protected Access encryption standard, or WPA, once heralded as the solution to WEP's insecurity.
Other modules were designed to target files encrypted using a system known as Cryptofiler - an encryption standard that used to be in widespread use by intelligence agencies but is now less common.
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To encrypt its data, the pen uses an algorithm called Rijndael, which the National Institute for Standards and Technology is planning to use as the Advanced Encryption Standard, which will replace the existing Data Encryption Standard (DES), which is currently being phased out of use.
Smid noted that NIST's public contest to find the next generation encryption standard is a radical change from the government's previously closed procedure for adopting DES. "It's a breakthrough in the way the government and the public sector are coming up with a standard, " he said.
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He establishes a connection to his account using a user ID and password known only to him, and the connection is secured using standard encryption technology.
The Rolls-Royce of phones meets the gold standard of mobile encryption.
Silent Phone deploys the ZRTP peer-to-peer encryption protocol which is recognized as the leading standard for secure end-to-end communication in a Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) telephone call.
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BlackBerry products and solutions are protected by best-in-class AES 256-bit encryption, a highly secure, internationally recognized data protection standard.
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In a blistering letter in February to Michael Powell, the new chairman of the FCC, RadioShack, Circuit City and Sears argued that the encryption license is a self-preservation device that creates a double standard: one for the cable companies that own CableLabs and one for everyone else.
What about requiring every third-party service provider to protect personal customer data through encryption, tokenization or another advanced security technology, through clauses written into and enforced as part of standard service level agreements?
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