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Green Entropy
White Paper international Think-tank Community (iTC) April 1st, 2019 Green Entropy Tasked with consideration of ways and means to reduce the carbon footprint of IT security; after a year of deliberation the iTC have produced the following summary of their report. The full report is available on request to itc@green-entropy.org Research…
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Cryptographic module related work in ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 27/WG 3
For several years the value of conformance testing against the FIPS 140-2 specification has been well accepted, and the assurance gained through validated conformance has been specified in several other markets.
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How the U.S. government shutdown affects us
As many of our customers will be aware, the current U.S. government shutdown can affect their projects with atsec. This time, the partial shutdown includes the U.S. Department of Commerce, and hence NIST’s Computer Security Resource Center. This affects our customers with FIPS 140-2 conformance validations (CMVP), and…
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International Cryptographic Module Conference 2018 in Ottawa, Canada
After a day of pre-conference workshops, the International Cryptographic Module Conference (ICMC) 2018 was kicked off this morning with a welcome address from atsec’s VP and Lab Director Yi Mao. The welcome was followed by keynote speeches from Jason Hart, CTO of Data Protection for Gemalto UK and…
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eIDAS for Remote (Centralised Server) Signing
What is eIDAS? Evaluation and certification of trustworthy systems and signature and seal creation devices becomes increasingly important due to the new eIDAS regulation (EU Regulation No. 910/2014) that entered into force in the 28 EU Member States in July 2016. eIDAS is an EU regulation on electronic…
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As You Like It!
Over the last few years we have seen some maturation in the processes of providing information security assurance. This is good. First letโs roll back into history, to the days in the โ70โs and โ80โs, when it could not be safely assumed that the operating systems in use…
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Yi Mao’s Opening Speech at the Fifth ICMC
“Dear Community, It is the second time that I have had the honor and pleasure to open the International Cryptographic Module Conference. This year is very special since it is the fifth anniversary of the conference.ย Iโd like to welcome you all with an image from the end…
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FIPS 140-2 and ISO Standards
atsec customers who have projects for testing, validating, and certifying cryptographic modules for the US government market are intimately familiar with the FIPS 140-2 standard. This standard and its associated supporting documents are produced and published by NIST. Together, the suite of documents define the specification and testing…
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ICMC Presidential Debate
The votes have been counted and Zippa Futura and ISO/IEC 19790 win by a large margin:
