Encryption Stories for 2013

Linux Distributions Storing Wi-Fi Passwords In Plain Text 341
Encrypted PIN Data Taken In Target Breach 213
RSA Flatly Denies That It Weakened Crypto For NSA Money 291
Privacy Advocate Jacob Appelbaum Reports Break-In Of Berlin Apartment 194
Ask Slashdot: Can Commercial Hardware Routers Be Trusted? 213
Reuters: RSA Weakened Encryption For $10M From NSA 464
Why Charles Stross Wants Bitcoin To Die In a Fire 691
Scientists Extract RSA Key From GnuPG Using Sound of CPU 264
Academics Should Not Remain Silent On Government Hacking 135
Theo De Raadt Says FreeBSD Is Just Catching Up On Security 280
IETF To Change TLS Implementation In Applications 80
NSA Able To Crack A5/1 Cellphone Crypto 122
FreeBSD Developers Will Not Trust Chip-Based Encryption 178
OpenSSH Has a New Cipher — Chacha20-poly1305 — from D.J. Bernstein 140
CyanogenMod Integrates Text Message Encryption 118
How a Bitcoin Transaction Actually Works 174
FSF Responds To Microsoft's Privacy and Encryption Announcement 174
Microsoft's NSA 'Transparency' Push Remains Pretty Opaque 90
Intelligence Officials Fear Snowden's 'Doomsday' Cache 381
Jury Finds Newegg Infringed Patent, Owes $2.3 Million 324
Study Suggests Link Between Dread Pirate Roberts and Satoshi Nakamoto 172
Tapping Data From Radio-Controlled Bus Stop Displays 75
Twitter Implements Forward Secrecy For Connections 38
Tor Now Comes In a Box 150
How Big Companies Can Hamper the Surveillance Infrastructure 153
P2P Data Not Private, But It Could Be 59
HTTP 2.0 May Be SSL-Only 320
Microsoft Warns Customers Away From RC4 and SHA-1 92
New Zealand's Hackable Transport Card Grants Free Bus Rides 96
TrueCrypt To Go Through a Crowdfunded, Public Security Audit 104
Stolen Adobe Passwords Were Encrypted, Not Hashed 230
Why Internet Explorer Still Dominates South Korea. 218
Ask Slashdot: Which Encrypted Cloud Storage Provider? 200
GCHQ, European Spy Agencies Cooperate On Surveillance 145
Dark Wallet Will Make Bitcoin Accessible For All — Except the Feds 206
Silent Circle, Lavabit Unite For 'Dark Mail' Encrypted Email Project 195
NSA Broke Into Links Between Google, Yahoo Datacenters 394
ACLU: Lavabit Was 'Fatally Undermined' By Demands For Encryption Keys 230
Ten Steps You Can Take Against Internet Surveillance 234
How I Compiled TrueCrypt For Windows and Matched the Official Binaries 250
Ask Slashdot: Can Bruce Schneier Be Trusted? 330
CryptoSeal Shuts Down Consumer VPN Service To Avoid Fighting NSA 361
Building an Opt-In Society 182
Researchers Show Apple Can Read iMessages 124
Security Researchers Want To Fully Audit Truecrypt 233
Ed Felten: Why Email Services Should Be Court-Order Resistant 183
Lavabit Briefly Allowing Users To Recover Their Data 52
Linux RNG May Be Insecure After All 240
Java Spec Compatibility Weakened Android's TLS Encryption 82
DOJ Hasn't Actually Found Silk Road Founder's Bitcoin Yet 294
Lavabit Case Unsealed: FBI Demands Companies Secretly Turn Over Crypto Keys 527
Silent Circle Moving Away From NIST Cipher Suites After NSA Revelations 168
Did NIST Cripple SHA-3? 169
Google To Encrypt All Keyword Searches 224
IDF Hackers Test Readiness In Israel For Cyberattacks 61
RSA Warns Developers Not To Use RSA Products 128
UK Cryptographers Call For UK and US To Out Weakened Products 105
Stealthy Dopant-Level Hardware Trojans 166
IETF Floats Draft PRISM-Proof Security Considerations 75
Ask Slashdot: Can We Still Trust FIPS? 138
Are the NIST Standard Elliptic Curves Back-doored? 366
Google's Encryption Plan To Stifle NSA's Dragnet Will Raise the Stakes 216
Google Speeding Up New Encryption Project After Latest Snowden Leaks 248
Researcher Spots a Drug Buy In Bitcoin's Blockchain 78
John Gilmore Analyzes NSA Obstruction of Crypto In IPSEC 362
Most Tor Keys May Be Vulnerable To NSA Cracking 236
NSA Foils Much Internet Encryption 607
Security Company Attributes Tor Traffic Surge To Botnet 55
NSA-resistant Android App 'Burns' Sensitive Messages 183
Software Developer Says Mega Master Keys Are Retrievable 136
The Legal Purgatory at the US Border: Detained, Searched, and Interrogated 555
Lockbox Aims To NSA-Proof the Cloud 292
Quantum Cryptography Is Safe Again 34
Tor Usage More Than Doubles In August 186
Lavabit.com Owner: 'I Could Be Arrested' For Resisting Surveillance Order 255
Google To Encrypt Cloud Storage Data By Default 217
MIT Research: Encryption Less Secure Than We Thought 157
After Lavabit Shut-Down, Dotcom's Mega Promises Secure Mail 158
Chaos Computer Club, Others Scoff At German Email Security Move As "Marketing" 135
Ask Slashdot: Recommendations For Non-US Based Email Providers? 410
Ask Slashdot: How Do I Request Someone To Send Me a Public Key? 399
Deutsche Telekom Moves Email Traffic In-Country In Wake of PRISM 180
Silent Circle Follows Lavabit By Closing Encrypted E-mail Service 470
Encrypted Email Provider Lavabit Shuts Down, Blames US Gov't 771
Math Advance Suggest RSA Encryption Could Fall Within 5 Years 282
TOR Wants You To Stop Using Windows, Disable JavaScript 341
BREACH Compression Attack Steals SSL Secrets 106
More Encryption Is Not the Solution 207
Google Starts Upgrading Its SSL Certificates To 2048-bit Keys 118
Ask Slashdot: Secure DropBox Alternative For a Small Business? 274
Cybercrooks Increasingly Use Tor Network To Control Botnets 99
CNET: Feds Put Heat On Web Firms For Master Encryption Keys 148
Anonymous Source Claims Feds Demand Private SSL Keys From Web Services 276
Google Storing WLAN Passwords In the Clear 242
Open Source Tortilla For Tor To Be Released At Black Hat 68
BlackBerry Helps Indian Gov't Spy On Users' Messages 56
Ask Slashdot: Will the NSA Controversy Drive People To Use Privacy Software? 393
Group Chat Vulnerability Discovered in Cryptocat, Project Fixes and Apologizes 83
Calif. Attorney General: We Need To Crack Down On Companies That Don't Encrypt 127
Flaws In ZRTPCPP Library, Used In Secure Phone Apps 42
FCC Considering Proposal For Encrypted Ham Radio 371
NSA Releases Secret Pre-History of Computers 167
Introducing the NSA-Proof Crypto-Font 259
Use Tor, Get Targeted By the NSA 451
Nationwide Snooping System Launched In India 98
21 Financial Sites Found To Store Sensitive Data In Browser Disk Cache 118
Amazon Vows To Fight Government Requests For Data 104
Revealed: How the UK Spied On Its G20 Allies At London Summits 262
Keeping Your Data Private From the NSA (And Everyone Else) 622
Seeking Fifth Amendment Defenders 768
U.S. District Judge: Forced Decryption of Hard Drives Violates Fifth Amendment 417
Disposable VPN: Tor Gateways With EC2 Free Tiers 78
Judge Orders Child Porn Suspect To Decrypt His Hard Drives 802
One-Time Pad From Caltech Offers Uncrackable Cryptography 192
Apple Deluged By Police Demands To Decrypt iPhones 239
Ask Slashdot: What Is the Best Email Encryption Gateway For a Small Business? 155
Using YouTube For File Storage 193
RMS Urges W3C To Reject On Principle DRM In HTML5 320
IBM Researchers Open Source Homomorphic Crypto Library 130
National Security Draft For Fining Tech Company "Noncompliance" On Wiretapping 165
Federal Magistrate Rules That Fifth Amendment Applies To Encryption Keys 322
Japanese Police Urge ISPs To Block Tor 242
CipherCloud Invokes DMCA To Block Discussions of Its Crypto System 85
Drug Site Silk Road Says It Will Survive Bitcoin's Volatility 293
To Connect People Securely, Tor Project Seeks New Bridges 56
TJX Hacker Gives Keynote At 'Offensive' Security Conference 35
Draft IETF Standard for SSH Key Management Released 35
Is the DEA Lying About iMessage Security? 195
Want to Keep Messages From the Feds? Use iMessage 153
The Activists Who Bring Security To the Oppressed 33
A New Benefit For Logged-In Readers: Meet Slashdot's ROT13 Initiative 261
Ask Slashdot: Encrypted Digital Camera/Recording Devices? 285
Ask Slashdot: Simplifying Encryption and Backup? 148
Jacob Appelbaum on How OSS Improves Cryptography 35
Cryptographers Break Commonly Used RC4 Cipher 90
MIT Crypto Experts Win 2012 Turing Award 32
How the First Bitcoin Hedge Fund Approaches Security 124
Cryptography 'Becoming Less Important,' Adi Shamir Says 250
Cellphone Privacy In Canada: Encryption Triggers Need For Warrant 111
US Stealth Jet Has To Talk To Allied Planes Over Unsecured Radio 270
Deloitte: Use a Longer Password In 2013. Seriously. 538
Trojanized SSH Daemon In the Wild, Sending Passwords To Iceland 171
Github Kills Search After Hundreds of Private Keys Exposed 176
Kim Dotcom's Mega Claims 1 Million Users Within 24 Hours 211
Kim Dotcom's 'Mega' Storage Site Arrives 314
Google Chrome 25 Will Serve Searches Over SSL From the Omnibox For All Users 101
NTLM 100% Broken Using Hashes Derived From Captures 155
Postal Service Pilots 'Federal Cloud Credential Exchange' 54
Hiding Secret Messages In Skype Silences 79