Matt Pauker is a co-founder of Voltage Security, a provider of enterprise software and encryption services.
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In this regard, cybersecurity products and services present a challenge because the exports may contain a mixture of different software, encryption functions, and controlled technical information.
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Wilson compares his new legal troubles to the widely-followed case in the mid-1990s of Philip Zimmermann, the inventor of the cryptographic software PGP, who was threatened with indictment under ITAR for putting his military-grade encryption software online.
In November, Twitter bought Whisper Systems, an encryption startup that originally built encryption software for Android.
Then there's encryption software to seal off your hard drive in case your computer goes for a walk.
When Paul was in high school he and his dad worked together to write encryption software for a calculator.
It turns out even poorly resourced religious zealots can exploit smart phones, encryption software and the anonymity of the Internet.
The company has encryption software that creates a secure drive that is protected by a password and essentially hidden from the view of any hacker.
Liberty, now with more than 40 members, is finishing work on software standards for encryption, user authentication and other functions, which members and nonmembers will share.
To file over the Internet, users will need 128-bit encryption software as well as a legitimate identification number located on the census form itself to authenticate the user.
In its filing to the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) the group said it believed "the intruder had access to the decryption tool for the encryption software utilized by TJX".
The government wants vendors to develop encryption software that includes a key recovery mechanism whereby the government could get access to the algorithm to decode a message for law enforcement purposes.
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For instance, requiring encryption software and hardware makers to hold a decoding key in "key escrow" is the equivalent of asking a bank to hold an extra set of safe-deposit-box keys.
Many members of Congress feel that these rules, which are followed by many governments, are now out of date and indeed pointless, as encryption software is being developed all around the world.
Export of software from the U.S., including software that deploys encryption functions, is controlled by the Bureau of Industry and Security ( BIS) in accordance with the Export Administration Regulations ( EAR).
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In April, an appeals court in another jurisdiction found in favour of Peter Junger, a law professor who had posted the code for encryption software on the Internet, in violation of American export controls.
In 2000, member studios of the Motion Picture Association of America successfully sued the hacker magazine 2600 for offering readers access to DeCSS, a piece of software used to break DVD encryption.
But the Justice Department and the FBI want Congress to pass a quite different bill, one, which would make it easier for them secretly to gain access to suspects' computers in their homes, to gather passwords, to install "recovery devices" and to disable encryption and security software.
On the other hand, there is no shortage of third-party software that enable policy-based disk encryption on iPhones and iPads (including, full disclosure, the market-leading Afaria software offered by my employer, Sybase).
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The bureau will test this spring the compatibility of World Wide Web browsers with software that supports 128-bit encryption, Leslie said.
After all, the software doesn't actually break the encryption on DVDs.
The software doesn't decode Skype's encryption, but instead captures audio streams, keystrokes typed into the keyboard and possibly anything else happening on the computer.
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The music, consumer-electronics and software industries continue to struggle to agree on an encryption system for protecting copyright-owners.
MacKeeper is a suite of 16 software utilities including Internet security, file recovery, data encryption and back-up.
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U.S. software companies complain that the policy harms them because strong encryption is widely available outside the U.S. and U.S. vendors are losing money as a result.
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For increased data protection of backed-up files, the software also features an AES 256-bit government-grade encryption.
Usually, when connecting to any encrypted network, you have to enter the password for it in your wireless network settings, in which case your software may identify if a network is encrypted by WEP, WPA or WPA2 encryption.
AOL, which will eventually add data-encryption, content-security and trusted-partner features to their own messaging software.
Victorinox may have offered a hefty bounty to crack its secure USB drives' encryption, but the storage sticks seem to have met their match another way: the end of software support.
Its password encryption scheme, dubbed WEP for "wired equivalent privacy, " was nothing of the sort, and software to crack these passwords has been available for more than a year.
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