Microsoft Encryption Library for Health Databases released.
“SEAL” (Simple Encrypted Arithmetic Library) is a homomorphic encryption algorithm and allows querying medical data without decryption.
The code contains a few basic examples, and more detailed documentation will be available soon.
Microsoft is working on a new encryption algorithm for healthcare sector. Algortihm which called “SEAL” is a homomorphic encryption algorithm and allows querying medical data without decryption.
while we are waiting for free and open Certificate Authority “Lets Encrypt”, we got a new option.
sslip.io gives a subdomain based upon your ip and you just need to set up SSL key which released at GitHub to your server.
Finally you will have a ip based SSL subdomain address e.g. https://52-0-56-137.sslip.io/
Detail of SSLip.
Mozvote package implements a private voting protocol, as well as contains a demo.
Note that the public and private keys are hardcoded: you will want to use the
output of keygen.go to change them in a real application.
The Kalyna block cipher was selected during Ukrainian National Public Cryptographic Competition (2007-2010) and its slight modification was approved as the new encryption standard of Ukraine in 2015. Main requirements for Kalyna were both high security level and high performance of software implementation on general-purpose 64-bit CPUs. The cipher has SPN-based (Rijndael-like) structure with increased MDS matrix size, a new set of four different S-boxes, pre- and postwhitening using modulo 2^{64} addition and a new construction of the key schedule. Kalyna supports block size and key length of 128, 256 and 512 bits (key length can be either equal or double of the block size).
Lavaboom
Lavaboom is an open source end to end encrypted email provider from Germany
Key Features:
-sleek user interface
-supports 3 languages at interface (english, deutsch, french)
-key-pair management
-export keys as json
-full openpgp implementation
-lavaboom sync to host keys
-yubikey support for premium users (should be for anyone)
Protonmail
Protonmail is a swiss based email provider. All hosting is located at Switzerland.
Key Features:
-Protected by Switzerland privacy laws
-Custom css support
-One domain alias (works with .ch and .com domains)
-Extra box password to reach content (2nd auth)
-Full disk encryption
Tutanota
Tutanota is another Germany based hence they claim to be protective against NSA wiretapping.
Key Features:
-Default Delivery mode
-one username alias also on package (You can use yourname@tutanota.com and yournamesomething@tutanota both in one mailbox)
-minimalist, fast interface
-mobile applications
-tutanota means “secure message” in latin
Feature Lavaboom Protonmail Tutanota
SSL (Qualys Degree) A+ (4096bits) A+ (4096bits) A (2048bits)
Open Source Has Github Repo (?) Has Github repo
Key Management + -(an empty tab for it) -
Encryption OpenPGP Aes256 bits (CBC mode ?) Aes 128 bits
Plans 500mb free 1gb beta 1gb beta
1gb beta 5gb promotion
2gb kickstarter
15gb premium
Final opinions: These European providers has good European laws to hide behind, but they are not generous about quotas. Protonmail has left big questions on my mind when i tried to inspect the code. Protonmail has to be open source it rapidly to earn trust. My Points (over 10): Lavaboom 8, Tutanota 7, Protonmail 5.
I thank to all providers for letting me accept beta programs.
New Features
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* ssh(1), sshd(8): promote chacha20-poly1305@openssh.com to be the
default cipher
* sshd(8): support admin-specified arguments to AuthorizedKeysCommand;
bz#2081
* sshd(8): add AuthorizedPrincipalsCommand that allows retrieving
authorized principals information from a subprocess rather than
a file.
* ssh(1), ssh-add(1): support PKCS#11 devices with external PIN
entry devices bz#2240
* sshd(8): allow GSSAPI host credential check to be relaxed for
multihomed hosts via GSSAPIStrictAcceptorCheck option; bz#928
* ssh-keygen(1): support “ssh-keygen -lF hostname” to search
known_hosts and print key hashes rather than full keys.
* ssh-agent(1): add -D flag to leave ssh-agent in foreground without
enabling debug mode; bz#2381
Changes in 2.1.6
* agent: New option –verify for the PASSWD command.
* gpgsm: Add command option “offline” as an alternative to
–disable-dirmngr.
* gpg: Do not prompt multiple times for a password in pinentry
loopback mode.
* Allow the use of debug category names with –debug.
* Using gpg-agent and gpg/gpgsm with different locales will now show
the correct translations in Pinentry.
* gpg: Improve speed of –list-sigs and –check-sigs.
* gpg: Make –list-options show-sig-subpackets work again.
* gpg: Fix an export problem for old keyrings with PGP-2 keys.
* scd: Support PIN-pads on more readers.
* dirmngr: Properly cleanup zombie LDAP helper processes and avoid
hangs on dirmngr shutdown.
* Various other bug fixes.
Download Links
ftp://ftp.gnupg.org/gcrypt/gnupg/gnupg-2.1.6.tar.bz2 (4802k)
ftp://ftp.gnupg.org/gcrypt/gnupg/gnupg-2.1.6.tar.bz2.sig
This is the GnuPG source code compressed using BZIP2 and its OpenPGP
signature.
ftp://ftp.gnupg.org/gcrypt/binary/gnupg-w32-2.1.6_20150701.exe (2577k)
ftp://ftp.gnupg.org/gcrypt/binary/gnupg-w32-2.1.6_20150701.exe.sig
TrueCrypt Successor CipherSheds Alpha Version Released. You can try it from here.
First impressions;
-They changed truecrypt driver but not the documentation. This cause software not working with truecrypt on same system.
-They really need a good icon artist.