on a user screen, and interprets it using a token. The user is presented with a screen not unlike the following: The user has a password or PIN, and a token. In conjunction with screen, token and PIN, a cipher text is derived and passed...

• -Single Factor Authentication, Continued
• -2 (Combined) Factor Authentication
• -The Current Crop

to your network. The WPA features include support for both the simpler Pre-Shared Key and "enterprise" modes and supports only the mandatory TKIP cipher (some products support both TKIP and stronger optional AES encryption). "Enterprise" mode supports 802.1x...

investigation was undertaken into Zimmermann and PGP due to cryptography-related export regulations. Under US export laws, ciphers longer than 40 bits were considered munitions and thus illegal to export, and a three-year legal battle ensued between Zimmermann...

keys for a user. A basic 2048-bit RSA key pair is generated by default after a passphrase is entered, but any aspect of this key (such as key length, type, ciphers, hashes, etc) can be changed with the click of the Advanced button. Figure 8: PGP Desktop...

to implement a centralized encryption solution) or Professional (for individual users) flavors. FreeOTFE is a free (as-in-beer) disk encryption program for Windows that allows for a variety of different encryption algorithms and ciphers to be used in encrypting...

In Conclusion. ignorance is bliss. What you don't know won't hurt you, but on the Internet, nothing could be further from the truth. In Part 2 of his Internet Security series, Pat McKenna shows how a secure SSL "padlock" on your browser and a strong password...