Encryption Stories for 2012

Bletchley Park Codebreaker Honored 57
BLAKE2 Claims Faster Hashing Than SHA-3, SHA-2 and MD5 134
ElcomSoft Tool Cracks BitLocker, PGP, TrueCrypt In Real-Time 268
VPN Providers Say China Blocks Encryption Using Machine Learning Algorithms 111
EFF Spinoff Pools Donor Dollars To Prevent WikiLeaks-Style Payment Blockades 95
WW2 Pigeon Code Decrypted By Canadian? 158
An Interactive Graph of the Certificate Authority Ecosystem 39
New 25-GPU Monster Devours Strong Passwords In Minutes 330
Raided For Running a Tor Exit Node 325
"Anonymous" File-Sharing Darknet Ruled Illegal By German Court 285
After Weeks of Trying, UK Cryptographers Fail To Crack WWII Code 263
Quantum Cryptography Conquers Noise Problem 79
NASA To Encrypt All of Its Laptops 226
Meet the Lawyer Suing Anyone Who Uses SSL 347
Attack Steals Crypto Key From Co-Located Virtual Machines 73
Most US Drones Still Beam Video Unencrypted 138
WW2 Carrier Pigeon and Undecoded Message Found In Chimney 287
Ask Slashdot: Is TSA's PreCheck System Easy To Game? 157
New Trusted HW Standard For Windows 8 To Support Chinese Crypto 87
SSL Holes Found In Critical Non-Browser Software 84
Anonymous' WikiLeaks-Like Project Tyler To Launch In December 101
How a Google Headhunter's E-Mail Revealed Massive Misuse of DKIM 115
PS3 Encryption Keys Leaked 284
Aussie Researchers Crack Transport Crypto, Get Free Rides 88
Zimmermann's Silent Circle Now Live 127
Poor SSL Implementations Leave Many Android Apps Vulnerable 141
UK Police Fined For Using Unencrypted Memory Sticks 100
Book Review: Everyday Cryptography 56
Phil Zimmermann's New App Protects Smartphones From Prying Ears 121
SHA-3 Winner Announced 100
WhatsApp Threatens Developers of PC Gateway With Legal Action 27
Schneier: We Don't Need SHA-3 143
W3C Releases First Working Draft of Web Crypto API 63
Quantum Key Exchange With an Airplane 44
Microsoft: As of October, 1024-Bit Certs Are the New Minimum 207
Violation of Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle 155
Quantum Teleportation Sends Information 143 Kilometers 333
Leave Your Cellphone At Home, Says Jacob Appelbaum 306
Calculating the Cost of Full Disk Encryption 242
Doctorow on the War on General Purpose Computing 360
Private Key Found Embedded In Major SCADA Equipment 105
Researchers Seek Help Cracking Gauss Mystery Payload 229
Bitcoin-Based Drug Market Silk Road Thriving With $2 Million In Monthly Sales 498
Report from HOPE: Cryptocat And Encryption in the Cloud 29
Ask Slashdot: Managing Encrypted Android Devices In State and Local Gov't? 138
In Face of Flame Malware, Microsoft Will Revamp Windows Encryption Keys 100
John the Ripper Cracks Slow Hashes On GPU 61
Turing Archive Director Questions Alan Turing Suicide Report 121
Fujitsu Cracks Next-Gen Cryptography Standard 99
Phil Zimmermann's New Venture Will Offer Strong Privacy By Subscription 219
Move Over, Quantum Cryptography: Classical Physics Can Be Unbreakable Too 126
FBI Hunt For Child Porn Thwarted By Tor 714
How Many Seconds Would It Take To Crack Your Password? 454
MD5crypt Password Scrambler Is No Longer Considered Safe 212
CryptoCat Developer Questioned At US-Canadian Border 271
Ask Slashdot: Equipping a Company With Secure Android Phones? 229
UK Police Roll Out On-the-Spot Mobile Data Extraction System 145
Apple Security Blunder Exposes Lion Login Passwords In Clear Text 205
German Authorities Find Al Qaeda Plans Disguised In Porn 332
SSL Pulse Project Finds Just 10% of SSL Sites Actually Secure 62
Major OpenSSL Security Issue Found (and Fixed) 78
University of Pittsburgh Deluged With Internet Bomb Threats 238
Super-Privacy-Protecting ISP In the Planning 184
Scientists Release Working Prototype Of CAPTCHA-Based Password Assistant 86
Swedish Researchers Expose China's Tor-Blocking Tricks 73
Cops Can Crack an iPhone In Under Two Minutes 375
Getting the Most Out of SSH 284
The Spanish Link In Cracking the Enigma Code 67
NSA Building US's Biggest Spy Center 279
DOJ Asks Court To Keep Secret Google / NSA Partnership 157
Anonymous, Decentralized and Uncensored File-Sharing Is Booming 308
EFF's HTTPS Everywhere Detects and Warns About Cryptographic Vulnerabilities 46
US Appeals Court Upholds Suspect's Right To Refuse Decryption 358
John Nash's Declassified 1955 Letter To the NSA 93
99.8% Security For Real-World Public Keys 108
Southwest Airlines iPhone App Unencrypted, Vulnerable To Eavesdroppers 139
Tor Tests Undetectably Encrypted Connections In Iran 157
Sponsor a Valve On Colossus 30
Pasadena Police Encrypt, Deny Access To Police Radio 487
Defendant Ordered To Decrypt Laptop Claims She Had Forgotten Password 1009
Satellite Phone Encryption Cracked 54
Do You Like Online Privacy? You May Be a Terrorist 720
Stealing Smartphone Crypto Keys Using Radio Waves 37
US Judge Rules Defendant Can Be Forced To Decrypt Hard Drive 1047
Post-9/11 DOJ Tech Project Dying After 10 Years? 115