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Revolution through Competition?

2008-01-07 09:15:52 by Editor in IEEE Security and Privacy
 
Competition, in the form of survival of the fittest, has been around far longer than humans, but humans are unique in setting up artificial competitions and awarding prizes for success. The Olympic Games is perhaps the oldest competition that continues to this day (albeit with a hiatus of two millennia), though no doubt it wasn't the first....
 
Tags: competition, artificial competitions, humans, olympic games, technological competitions, form, day, survival, unique
 
 
 
 
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A New Hash Competition

2008-05-22 14:32:02 by Editor in IEEE Security and Privacy
 
...competition to select a new SHA-3 standard. This article outlines the competition, its rules, the requirements for the hash function candidates, and the process that NIST will use to select the final winning SHA-3 standard
 
Tags: nist sha-2 standards, competition, standards, nist, sha-3 standard, international competition, collision attacks, long-term viability, article outlines
 
 
 
 
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A cryptographic hash function reading guide

2007-11-23 16:01:18 by George Danezis in Light Blue Touchpaper
 
...competition to determine the next Secure Hash Algorithm, SHA-3. SHA-0 is considered broken, SHA-1 is still secure but no one knows for how long, and the SHA-2 family are desperately slow. (Do not even think about using MD5, or MD4 for which Prof. Wang can find collisions by hand, but RIPEMD-160 still stands.) Cryptographers are ecstatic about...
 
Tags: function, hash functions, cryptographic hash functions, functions, functions secure, design, hash function design, compression functions, secure hash function
 
 
 
 
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Symantec + Vontu: A Marriage Made In Heaven?

2007-11-13 08:55:35 by Thomas Raschke in Security & Risk Management
 
...Competition and clarity. It will increase competition and will help to clarify the question of What is ILP and what should it do? This means that vendors offering some ILP functionality will either fall by the wayside or invest/acquire for full blown ILP functionality. The same applies to vendors not being able to capture ILP mind share and...
 
Tags: ilp, ilp awareness, ilp wave, ilp vendors compare, ilp leader, ilp functionality, loss, data loss prevention, blown ilp functionality
 
 
 
 
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New Privacy Policy Wrinkles: Online Behavioral Advertising; and Potential new EU Data Protection Policy

2008-01-31 11:24:31 by Geoffrey Turner in Security & Risk Management
 
...Competition Policy and Consumer Rights. Both the FTC and the Senate were addressing not only anti-trust risks for competition but also the implications for consumer privacy of a merger of the leading Web search engine and leading behavioral advertising provider The discussion led the FTC to suggest last month that Web advertisers using...
 
Tags: consumer, consumer protection, privacy policy, consumer choice, consumer data, constitutes sensitive data, sensitive data, protection, ftc staff
 
 
 
 
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Lock-In

2008-02-12 06:08:15 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...competition for ancillary products. With Mac computers, anyone can sell software that does anything. But Apple gets to decide who can sell what on the iPhone. It can foster competition when it wants, and reserve itself a monopoly position when it wants. And it can dictate terms to any company that wants to sell iPhone software and...
 
Tags: lock-in, software, software development kit, custom software, software company, security, hardware, special security hardware, security mechanism
 
 
 
 
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A new world order of computing - an analogy of Microsoft and the US

2008-02-19 00:24:05 by HASH0x8baa6ec in StillSecure, After All These Years
 
...competition like Lotus, Wordperfect and Netscape the way we did Mexico in the US-Mexican war. They even invested in Apple to prop them up as a potential rival like the US did in setting up banana republics. By the late 90's did anyone in the mainstream dare to speak out in public about Microsoft being potentially vulnerable and competing with...
 
Tags: world, microsoft, crazy world, multi-polar world, ago microsoft, century, 21st century, drive fast cars, unipolar american hegemony
 
 
 
 
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Inflecting end-user awareness

2006-12-03 20:27:35 by RaviC in Musings on Information Security
 
...competition 7. Keep the program up to date, revise the program based on the feedback Design the program with the end goal of behavioral change in mind, segment program across various target groups, leverage existing delivery methods, measure results, compare results across business units to create competition. Last but not least, keep it...
 
Tags: program, end-user awareness program, program based, segment program, informative handout, handout, security awareness initiative, business units, behavioral change
 
 
 
 
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A new world order of computing - an analogy of Microsoft and the US

2008-02-18 14:27:32 by ashimmy in StillSecure, After All These Years
 
...competition like Lotus, Wordperfect and Netscape the way we did Mexico in the US-Mexican war. They even invested in Apple to prop them up as a potential rival like the US did in setting up banana republics. By the late 90's did anyone in the mainstream dare to speak out in public about Microsoft being potentially vulnerable and competing with...
 
Tags: world, microsoft, crazy world, multi-polar world, ago microsoft, century, 21st century, drive fast cars, unipolar american hegemony
 
 
 
 
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From Apathy to Enlightenment: On A Log!

2008-04-22 13:48:00 by Dr Anton Chuvakin in Anton Chuvakin Blog -