Category Archives: Software Security

About Apple’s Security Foundations

Every once in a while it’s healthy to reinstall your system… I know, I know, it’s almost a heresy to say that, but that’s reality in the world where our systems are totally unverifiable. In fact I don’t even attempt to verify if my Mac laptop has been compromised in any way (most system files [...]
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Authentication Requirements

Authentication helps to establish trust by identifying who a particular user/system is. Before discussing about the various aspects of authentication, let us see the attack that are identified in the context of communication across a network. The following attacks are identified: Disclosure : Release of message contents to any person or process not processing the appropriate cryptographic [...]
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Email Security

Electronic mail is perhaps the most widely used application on the Internet. Using email, and internet user can sed a send a message to other internat users. Consequently, the security os email message has become an extremely important issue. Let us now study the main email security protocols: Pretty Good Privacy(PGP) Secure MIME(S/MIME) Pretty Good Privacy(PGP) : PGP provides [...]
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