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A blog about software and hardware security

http://securityblog.astida.com/

articles about security systems, secure protocols, tamperproofing, obfuscation, authentication, attacks vectors, cryptography, threats, vulnerabilities

• Added on: Oct 19th, 2009
• Country: United States
• Language: English

• Author: davitb
• Listed in: Computer Security
• Tags: authentication cryptography obfuscation security protocols tamper proofing attack vectors

Recent Posts

• How to securely hide a cryptographic key?

  Posted on Tuesday November 10th, 2009 at 00:30 in confidentiality, tpm, obfuscation, hardware protection, tamper proofing, software obfuscation, tamperproof software, how to design secure systems?, cryptprotectdata, cryptprotectmemory

  In my previous article I was discussing how a “non expert” security engineer should think about choosing the right security protocol for his system. I have tried to present that complicated task in an easier manner. However it’s important to...

• How to choose the right security protocol?

  Posted on Monday November 2nd, 2009 at 19:20 in eavesdropping, authenticity, authentication, integrity, ssl, confidentiality, security protocols, man-in-the-middle, speke, attacking secure systems, how to design secure systems?, diffie-helman

  We all know that sending data over network and being sure that its confidentiality is not damaged is one of the crucial problems in security engineering. In fact, except some special cases the entire information security area is based on the problem ...

• How to design secure systems? Part 2: Key Concepts in Information Security

  Posted on Wednesday October 28th, 2009 at 02:20 in accessibility, authenticity, availability, integrity, confidentiality, security analysis, non-repudiation

  Before starting discussing different techniques which are helpful while creating architecture of a secure system, it’s useful to go through the key concepts which must always be at primary concern of any software/hardware architect while thinking a...

• How to design secure systems? Part1: Security Analysis

  Posted on Monday October 19th, 2009 at 00:41 in risk, vulnerabilities, threat, security analysis, security design, attacking secure systems, attack graph, attack vector

  Secure system is a piece, or any combination of hardware, software or just an operation which protects an information block that is sensitive to the user. There are secure systems which are dedicated to perform only security related operations (such ...

• How the crackers crack code?

  Posted on Sunday October 11th, 2009 at 17:33 in cracking, debuggers, tamper proofing, attacking secure systems, software obfuscation, tamperproof software, breaking code, dll hooking

  There are several reasons why a software company would decide to implement heavy protection schemes in their applications by spending lot of development resources, time and money. These reasons are mainly related to the business models of the applica...

• One-Time Passwords

  Posted on Friday October 2nd, 2009 at 02:31 in authentication, https, ssl, oath, ocra, challenge-response, man-in-the-middle, hmac, one time passwords, rsa secureid

  I decided to continue the series of “user authentication” related articles (which I started with article Conventional Website Authentication Model and its Weaknesses) and bring more details about one-time passwords. In this article I will overvie...

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