It seems like daily I hear about security breaches, laptops being stolen. All this personal information is being leaked. I dont understand why people dont use encryption ? I admit it seems daunting, but there are programs out that now that require you to click a button. Its that simple. But what standard do you encrypt with ? I personally like AES which stands for Advanced encryption standard. It is FIPS compliant another lovely acronym that stand for federal information processing which means the goverment uses it to secure unclassified data.
If you want to know the ins and outs of the algorithihm here is a paper published by NIST.
AES Text
After finishing the document, I feel like I need another Red bull.
It talks abouts ciphers, bits, plaintext and other goodies. A knowledge of C C++ or Unix is helpfull. There are alot of functions.
XOR is used in the algorithim to encrypt plaintext into ciphertext.
The cipherkey itself can have lengths of 128, 192 or 256 bits.
There is to much math for me, gives me a headache, although I can understand some of the code.
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Wednesday, August 30, 2006
Thursday, August 17, 2006
Microsoft Presentation
We had Microsoft come out to our office to show us Vista. It looks clen but the hardware requirements are going to require allot of people to upgrade. Thats good new to me but bad for consumers. Personally I love Linux. Vista looks allot like OS X. Apple's OS.
There are some new security feautures including a way to encrypt directories and filesystems. When I asked what encryption protocol would be used, I did not get an answer. That's marketing for you. I also read that Microsoft released 12 security alerts. 8 are critical. You can read about the here .
There are some new security feautures including a way to encrypt directories and filesystems. When I asked what encryption protocol would be used, I did not get an answer. That's marketing for you. I also read that Microsoft released 12 security alerts. 8 are critical. You can read about the here .
Wednesday, August 09, 2006
Goals and Career
I currently work for a large IT company consulting enterprise accounts on hardware software needs. I'm working on obtaining my Associates degree and have decided that my major is going to be information assurance. (IT Security). I plan on studying for my CCNA and have a goal of obtaining it by January of 2007. After I complete my self-study. I will go after my CISSP. Currently I'm a MCP or Microsoft Certified Proffesional.
Here is a sample of the courses:
Here is a sample of the courses:
Bachelor of Science - 127-128 credits