Encryption Stories for 2014

NSA Says They Have VPNs In a 'Vulcan Death Grip' 234
Kim Dotcom's Mega Again Announces Encrypted Browser-Based Chat Service 40
Snowden Documents Show How Well NSA Codebreakers Can Pry 278
Ask Slashdot: Dealing With Companies With Poor SSL Practices? 141
Lizard Squad Targets Tor 83
Boeing and BlackBerry Making a Self-Destructing Phone 75
Tor Network May Be Attacked, Says Project Leader 86
Researchers Discover SS7 Flaw, Allowing Total Access To Any Cell Phone, Anywhere 89
Verizon "End-to-End" Encrypted Calling Includes Law Enforcement Backdoor 170
POODLE Flaw Returns, This Time Hitting TLS Protocol 54
Neglecting the Lessons of Cypherpunk History 103
Ask Slashdot: Convincing My Company To Stop Using Passwords? 247
The Cost of the "S" In HTTPS 238
Mathematical Trick Helps Smash Record For the Largest Quantum Factorization 62
18th Century Law Dredged Up To Force Decryption of Devices 446
BlackBerry Clears Hurdle For Voice Crypto Acquisition 27
Nuclear Weapons Create Their Own Security Codes With Radiation 106
Another Hint For Kryptos 50
Tracking a Bitcoin Thief, Part II: Illustrating the Issue of Trust In Altcoins 46
WhatsApp To Offer End-to-End Encryption 93
Launching 2015: a New Certificate Authority To Encrypt the Entire Web 212
81% of Tor Users Can Be De-anonymized By Analysing Router Information 136
After Silk Road 2.0 Shutdown, Rival Dark Net Markets Grow Quickly 86
ISPs Removing Their Customers' Email Encryption 245
More Tor .Onion Sites May Get Digital Certificates Soon 52
Silk Road 2.0 Seized By FBI, Alleged Founder Arrested In San Francisco 219
EFF Begins a Campaign For Secure and Usable Cryptography 96
Facebook Sets Up Shop On Tor 125
"Police Detector" Monitors Emergency Radio Transmissions 215
Deutsche Telecom Upgrades T-Mobile 2G Encryption In US 27
Delivering Malicious Android Apps Hidden In Image Files 113
Security Company Tries To Hide Flaws By Threatening Infringement Suit 124
'Endrun' Networks: Help In Danger Zones 28
FBI Director Continues His Campaign Against Encryption 284
Google Finds Vulnerability In SSL 3.0 Web Encryption 68
Analysis of Linux Backdoor Used In Freenode Hack 37
ISPs Violating Net Neutrality To Block Encryption 149
Tiny Wireless Device Offers Tor Anonymity 68
VeraCrypt Is the New TrueCrypt -- and It's Better 220
Snowden's Tough Advice For Guarding Privacy 210
Details of iOS and Android Device Encryption 146
User Error Is the Primary Weak Point In Tor 70
CloudFlare Announces Free SSL Support For All Customers 67
Tor Executive Director Hints At Firefox Integration 117
Security Collapse In the HTTPS Market 185
How the NSA Profits Off of Its Surveillance Technology 83
FBI Chief: Apple, Google Phone Encryption Perilous 354
Researchers Propose a Revocable Identity-Based Encryption Scheme 76
Wired Profiles John Brooks, the Programmer Behind Ricochet 49
TrueCrypt Gets a New Life, New Name 270
Next Android To Enable Local Encryption By Default Too, Says Google 126
Apple Will No Longer Unlock Most iPhones, iPads For Police 504
Why Is It Taking So Long To Secure Internet Routing? 85
Tim Cook Says Apple Can't Read Users' Emails, That iCloud Wasn't Hacked 191
Research Finds No Large-Scale Exploits of Heartbleed Before Disclosure 20
Why Google Is Pushing For a Web Free of SHA-1 108
Mozilla 1024-Bit Cert Deprecation Leaves 107,000 Sites Untrusted 67
Firefox 32 Arrives With New HTTP Cache, Public Key Pinning Support 220
Tox, a Skype Replacement Built On 'Privacy First' 174
Hal Finney, PGP and Bitcoin Pioneer, Dies At 58 40
Mozilla To Support Public Key Pinning In Firefox 32 90
UK Prisons Ministry Fined For Lack of Encryption At Prisons 74
NSA Agents Leak Tor Bugs To Developers 116
Tor Browser Security Under Scrutiny 80
Heartbleed To Blame For Community Health Systems Breach 89
Watch a Cat Video, Get Hacked: the Death of Clear-Text 166
Ryan Lackey, Marc Rogers Reveal Inexpensive Tor Router Project At Def Con 38
Study: Firmware Plagued By Poor Encryption and Backdoors 141
Silent Circle's Blackphone Exploited at Def Con 46
Yahoo To Add PGP Encryption For Email 175
Google Will Give a Search Edge To Websites That Use Encryption 148
The FBI Is Infecting Tor Users With Malware With Drive-By Downloads 182
Black Hat Researchers Actively Trying To Deanonymize Tor Users 82
Private Data On iOS Devices Not So Private After All 101
Russia Posts $110,000 Bounty For Cracking Tor's Privacy 98
New SSL Server Rules Go Into Effect Nov. 1 92
Dropbox Head Responds To Snowden Claims About Privacy 176
Intel Launches Self-Encrypting SSD 91
CNN iPhone App Sends iReporters' Passwords In the Clear 40
Want To Ensure Your Personal Android Data Is Truly Wiped? Turn On Encryption 91
First Release of LibreSSL Portable Is Available 101
UK Computing Student Jailed After Failing To Hand Over Crypto Keys 353
Tor Project Sued Over a Revenge Porn Business That Used Its Service 311
Use of Encryption Foiled the Cops a Record 9 Times In 2013 115
NSA Considers Linux Journal Readers, Tor (And Linux?) Users "Extremists" 361
Austrian Tor Exit Node Operator Found Guilty As an Accomplice 255
Encryption Keys For Kim Dotcom's Data Can't Be Given To FBI, Court Rules 149
Ars Takes an Early Look At the Privacy-Centric Blackphone 67
Cracking Atlanta Subway's Poorly-Encrypted RFID Smart Cards Is a Breeze, Part II 170
Mass. Supreme Court Says Defendant Can Be Compelled To Decrypt Data 560
Intuit Beats SSL Patent Troll That Defeated Newegg 59
Improperly Anonymized Logs Reveal Details of NYC Cab Trips 192
Ask Slashdot: How To Bequeath Sensitive Information? 208
TrueCrypt Author Claims That Forking Is Impossible 250
Restored Bletchly Park Opens 51
Nokia Extorted For Millions Over Stolen Encryption Keys 89
Despite Project's Demise, Amazon Web Services Continues To Use TrueCrypt 75
Auditors Release Verified Repositories of TrueCrypt 146
After the Belfast Project Fiasco, Time For Another Look At Time Capsule Crypto? 170
Whom Must You Trust? 120
A Year After Snowden's Disclosures, EFF, FSF Want You To Fight Surveillance 108
Google Announces 'End-To-End' Encryption Extension For Chrome 100
GnuTLS Flaw Leaves Many Linux Users Open To Attacks 127
TrueCrypt Cryptanalysis To Include Crowdsourcing Aspect 131
The Sudden Policy Change In Truecrypt Explained 475
OpenSSL To Undergo Security Audit, Gets Cash For 2 Developers 132
TrueCrypt Website Says To Switch To BitLocker 566
Why Lavabit Shut Down 304
XMPP Operators Begin Requiring Encryption, Google Still Not Allowing TLS 121
30-Day Status Update On LibreSSL 164
Discrete Logarithm Problem Partly Solved -- Time To Drop Some Crypto Methods? 114
Finding More Than One Worm In the Apple 116
Phil Zimmermann's 'Spy-Proof' Mobile Phone In Demand 107
Researchers Find, Analyze Forged SSL Certs In the Wild 86
Physicists Turn 8MP Smartphone Camera Into a Quantum Random Number Generator 104
One Month Later: 300,000 Servers Remain Vulnerable To Heartbleed 60
Samsung 'Smart' Camera Easily Hackable 62
TLS 1.3 Draft Prepares to Drop Static RSA Key Exchange 51
iOS 7 Update Silently Removes Encryption For Email Attachments 68
OpenBSD 5.5 Released 128
OpenSSH No Longer Has To Depend On OpenSSL 144
NIST Removes Dual_EC_DRBG From Random Number Generator Recommendations 86
Not Just a Cleanup Any More: LibreSSL Project Announced 360
OpenSSL Cleanup: Hundreds of Commits In a Week 379
Heartbleed Used To Bypass 2-Factor Authentication, Hijack User Sessions 59
Heartbleed Sparks 'Responsible' Disclosure Debate 188
Tor Blacklisting Exit Nodes Vulnerable To Heartbleed 56
RCMP Arrest Canadian Teen For Heartbleed Exploit 104
Snowden Used the Linux Distro Designed For Internet Anonymity 171
First Phase of TrueCrypt Audit Turns Up No Backdoors 171
Obama Says He May Or May Not Let the NSA Exploit the Next Heartbleed 134
NSA Allegedly Exploited Heartbleed 149
Theo De Raadt's Small Rant On OpenSSL 301
Snowden: NSA Spied On Human Rights Workers 230
"Nearly Unbreakable" Encryption Scheme Inspired By Human Biology 179
CryptoPhone Sales Jump To 100,000+, Even at $3500 68
TCP/IP Might Have Been Secure From the Start If Not For the NSA 149
NYU Group Says Its Scheme Makes Cracking Individual Passwords Impossible 277
MIT Researchers Create Platform To Build Secure Web Apps That Never Leak Data 90
Fake PGP Keys For Crypto Developers Found 110
WPA2 Wireless Security Crackable WIth "Relative Ease" 150
Aussie Attorney General's War On Encrypted Web Services 151
Weak Apple PRNG Threatens iOS Exploit Mitigations 143
University of Cambridge Develops Potentially More Secure Password Storage System 70
Eric Schmidt, Jared Cohen Say Google Data Now Protected From Gov't Spying 155
HTTPS More Vulnerable To Traffic Analysis Attacks Than Suspected 17
'Obnoxious' RSA Protests, RSA Remains Mum 99
Meet the Developers Who Want To Build the Next Snapchat 61
Another Possible Voynich Breakthrough 160
Vikings' Secret Code Cracked 89
Building Deception Into Encryption Software 106
Bletchley Park's Bitter Dispute Over Its Future 99
Spoiled Onions: Exposing Malicious Tor Exit Relays 65
Snapchat Account Registration CAPTCHA Defeated 52
Voynich Manuscript May Have Originated In the New World 170
Romanian Bitcoin Entrepreneur Steps In To Pay OpenBSD Shortfall 209
OpenBSD Moving Towards Signed Packages — Based On D. J. Bernstein Crypto 232
VPN Encryption Vulnerability On Android 77
Microsoft Remotely Deleted Tor From Windows Machines To Stop Botnet 214
Man Jailed For Refusing To Reveal USB Password 374
BitTorrent's Bram Cohen Unveils New Steganography Tool DissidentX 124
TrueCrypt Master Key Extraction and Volume Identification 222
How To Create Your Own Cryptocurrency 203
NSA Trying To Build Quantum Computer 221
Five Alternatives To Snapchat 94
Dual_EC_DRBG Backdoor: a Proof of Concept 201