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A couple weeks ago I pointed out a research paper that indicated that secure erasure of SSDs was problematic at best. Turns out there are some encryption issues too. Check out this article for some things to consider.

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This is just one serious metric ton load of awesome. An excellent how-to on encrypting block storage in the cloud.

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Securosis has release their white paper on Database Encryption and Tokenization. The parts that I have read on the blog have been excellent. Add this to your read pile. It's on mine.

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An interesting topic, tokenization, is covered quite well in this post on InfoCynic.

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Very cool. Encrypt your logs before sending them across the wire.

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Uh-oh. Not good.

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Here is a fun fictional story about a 'lost' laptop.

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I have pointed out the other articles in Alec's investigations into using entropy to detect encrypted sessions in live network traffic. Here is a continuation of that study. This is extremely cool and has the geek in me all excited :)

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Adrian takes a look at a few database encryption myths.

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A new free encryption tool is available. This one is provided by Sophos. That's pretty cool.

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This is just awesome. Jeff Moser has created a stick figure guide to AES. It goes into increasing levels of detail and definitely worth a gander if you are interested in the nitty gritty of AES. (Hat Tip: @SecRunner)

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A closer step to using frequency analysis to detect encrypted traffic on your network. Neat stuff.

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Dave offers up a tutorial on encrypting your data backups on the cheap.

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An interesting exploration of a possible way to detect encrypted sessions.

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Didier gives us a nifty little tip on hiding the fact that our laptop is encrypted.

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More database encryption goodies.

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More on database encryption. Good stuff.

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We will be seeing more and more drives that support this model.

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I pointed out an article yesterday that talked about a common encryption standard being adopted by hard drive manufacturers. The flip side of that is mentioned in this article, data recovery and forensics could get much harder.

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