Walkthrough : https://youtu.be/7MXVV858loU Code Example Link: https://github.com/HaydenMcNally/ISEC-611 Introduction to Garbled Circuits (History and Overview) Garbled circuit is a computational technique which Andrew Yao introduced in an oral presentation in 1986, and the first written document was authored by Goldreich, Micali, and Widgerson in 1987. The term “garbled circuit” was coined by Beaver, Micali, and Rogaway …
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US Treasury Hacked by Chinese Sponsored Hackers
What Happened: It was reported on January 10th that the US Treasury department was victim of a hack that occurred a month earlier on December 8th. The US Treasury has since called it a ‘Major Incident’ and called in the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), FBI and other intelligence organizations for help in containing …
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Teaching Aid – POODLE and Padding Oracle Attack
Walkthrough : https://youtu.be/E9EZ3AXqHSE Code Repository : https://github.com/HaydenMcNally/ISEC-603-Padding-Oracle History of the Padding Oracle Attack Padding Oracle attacks, also known as Vaudenay attacks was originally published in 2002 by Serge Vaudenay. The term ‘padding oracle’ appeared in literature in 2002, after Serge Vaudenay’s attack on the CBC mode decryption used within symmetric block ciphers. The earliest well-known …
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Tor’s Broken?
A recent article posted on September 19th claims to have seen evidence that German police and authorities successfully de-anonymized a Tor user which resulted in their arrest and conviction back in 2022. [3] Tor has and is still the main method for someone to anonymously access the internet and the dark web. Anonymity has made …
Password Crackers – Teaching Aid
Team Member: We created a website that gives you a deep dive into passwords and password crackers mainly hashcat and John the RipperWebsite link : https://keerthana200219.wixstudio.io/passwordcrackers
Post Quantum Cryptography: Kyber for Dummies
On August 13th 2024 NIST published the standards FIPS 203 (Kyber), FIPS 204 (Dilithium) and FIPS 205 (SPHINCS+) which are all quantum resistant algorithms that will soon replace those currently in use. The Kyber standard is a key encapsulation scheme which uses public key enabling and will replace the Diffie Hellman exchange. Dilithium and SPHINCS+ …
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