Los Alamos Lab Uses Quantum Physics for Mobile Security

Through quantum cryptography, researchers at Los Alamos National Laboratory researchers have invented a new system to secure large transfers of information between mobile devices.

LANL recently released information about the QKarD, a miniature transmitter which generates random cryptographic keys to encode and decode information.

LANL says the QKarD uses the laws of quantum physics and…

Marines to Use Lockheed Smartphone Network for Disaster Relief Exercises

The U.S. Marine Corps will soon beginning using a Lockheed Martin-developed tactical smartphone network to support the service branch’s disaster relief mission exercises and humanitarian assistance.

The Marine Corps Forces Pacific Experimentation Center has acquired the MONAX system, a portable private 4G network that provides voice, data and video services through commercial smartphone technologies.

The network connects off-the-shelf smartphones…

NSA Approves ITT Network Processors to Store Top Secret Apps

ITT Corp.’s Coyote family of secure network processors has been certified by the U.S. National Security Agency to protect any packet-based protocol for the network, voice, data and storage of top secret and below applications.

The Coyote program includes two fully-programmable cryptographic system-on-chip secure network processors, BlackRiver-AARIS-777 and Havasu-AARIS-457.

BlackRiver-AARIS-777 is top-secret certified and the Havasu-AARIS-457 is below certified.

Both support a…

Harris Wins $59.7 Million IDIQ for New Encryption Device

The U.S. Navy has selected Harris Corporation (NYSE: HRS) for a $5.9 million order for its KIK-11 Tactical Key Loader —  a new lightweight device that simplifies the process of loading classified key fill material into military radios and other end cryptographic units.

The initial delivery order…

SEC Suffers Email Encryption Snafu

About 4,000 employees at the Securities and Exchange Commission have been notified about a breach that may have exposed their Social Security numbers and other payroll information, Los Angeles Times reports.

Drew Malcomb, a Department of Interior spokesman, told Los Angeles Times the sensitive information was included in an unencrypted email sent May 4 by a contractor at the department’s National Business Center,…

SafeNet, NetApp Team Up to Offer Secure Cloud-Based Storage

Information security provider SafeNet Inc and storage and data management solutions provider NetApp are joining forces to offer a new approach to storage security solutions.

“SafeNet and NetApp are working together to make data-protection solutions available inside the network extendable beyond the network as customers…

Skype’s Encryption Technology Reverse Engineered

A group of crytoanalysts have published what they claim is the Skype encryption algorithm. The group, led by Sean O’Neil, claim to have successfully reverse engineered the RC4 cipher, an encryption technology used by Skype.

The encryption technology is used by Skype to protect communications between clients and the company’s servers. Nevertheless, even if the successful cracking of the cipher is confirmed, this does not necessarily mean individuals will be…

Chinese Want to See Encryption Info

The Chinese government is looking to force security vendors to disclose their encryption information based on new regulations that will come into effect on Saturday. The regulations stipulate that companies selling products that fit into one (or more) of six categories must submit their encryption information to a government panel to receive a license to sell to Chinese government agencies, The Register reports.

EU and U.S. authorities are against the…