Finalists in SHA-3 encryption hash contest announced

The final five entrants in the SHA-3 encryption hash run by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have been made public.

The NIST competition is part of a long-term project to develop the next generation of encryption technology. In the announcement BLAKE, Grøstl, JH, Keccak and Skein all made it through.

The NIST project started the search for SHA-3 in 2007 and has been whittling down the list for the past two years, excluding 53 entrants from some of the biggest names in the business, including IBM, France Telecom and Sandia National Laboratories.

The long test period is important considering the essential nature of secure SHA-3 methodology.

“What they are trying to do is produce a hash function that the community internationally will think is good and will be a stand for the next 20 years,” Jon Callas, PGP fellow and member of the team behind Skein, told V3.co.uk.

“Getting an extra couple of years for people to study things is to the benefit of everyone right now.”

The competition has, however, thrown up worrying questions about the level of security research in the US. The finalists are dominated by European and Asian consortia but nationality is not an issue, Callas said.

“Our team is an international one that includes a couple of Europeans. We’re motivated by the best security solution.”

SHA-2 is still secure, Callas said. Early reports of attacks had been shown to have no practical application.

Security guru Bruce Schneier is also one of the team members working on the Skein hash. He has expressed confidence in the security of the final list.


Read more: http://www.v3.co.uk/v3/news/2273888/nist-encryption-hash-sha#ixzz18HwyC77I
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Sign into Multiple accounts in Gmail with in the same Browser!

Google introduced a new feature which lets you sign in and access two  different Gmail / Google accounts at once on the same browser.  Most of us have more than one email Id which we use for different purposes. Previously , one can login to only one account at a time through one browser. This new feature eliminates the need of signing out or using a different browser for using other account. Here is the procedure to use multiple accounts in the same browser at the same time..

  * Go to google.com/accounts
  * Navigate to Multiple sign-in option – “Use multiple Google Accounts in the same web browse”

       and turn it on.
   * Sign into your first account.

   * After that, you can sign in with up to two additional accounts using the new accounts menu.

 

After enabling it, You can open  and use multiple Gmail / Google accounts in different tabs of the same browser. The feature can also be disabled by going to the above path and turning it off.

Although the multiple account sign-in feature is available for users, it doesn’t support all Google services like like Blogger and Picasa Web Albums, etc. For these services, the default account will be the first account you signed into. As of now, This feature is supported App Engine, Code, Calendar, Gmail, Reader, Sites and Voice and is restricted to desktop browsers and cannot be enabled on your mobile phones.

free download backtrack Operating system.

 

 BackTrack is the most top rated linux live distribution focused on penetration testing. With no installation whatsoever, the analysis platform is started directly from the CD-Rom and is fully accessible within minutes.

It's evolved from the merge of the two wide spread distributions - Whax and Auditor Security Collection. By joining forces and replacing these distributions, BackTrack has gained massive popularity and was voted in 2006 as the #1 Security Live Distribution by insecure.org. Security professionals as well as new-comers are using BackTrack as their favorite toolset all over the globe.

BackTrack has a long history and was based on many different linux distributions until it is now based on a Slackware linux distribution and the corresponding live-CD scripts by Tomas M. (www.slax.org) . Every package, kernel configuration and script is optimized to be used by security penetration testers. Patches and automation have been added, applied or developed to provide a neat and ready-to-go environment.

After coming into a stable development procedure during the last releases and consolidating feedbacks and addition, the team was focused to support more and newer hardware as well as provide more flexibility and modularity by restructuring the build and maintenance processes. With the current version, most applications are built as individual modules which help to speed up the maintenance releases and fixes.

Because Metasploit is one of the key tools for most analysts it is tightly integrated into BackTrack and both projects collaborate together to always provide an on-the-edge implementation of Metasploit within the BackTrack CD-Rom images or the upcoming remote-exploit.org distributed and maintained virtualization images (like VMWare images appliances).

Being superior while staying easy to use is key to a good security live cd. We took things a step further and aligned BackTrack to penetration testing methodologies and assessment frameworks (ISSAF and OSSTMM). This will help our professional users during their daily reporting nightmares.

Currently BackTrack consists of more than 300 different up-to-date tools which are logically structured according to the work flow of security professionals. This structure allows even newcomers to find the related tools to a certain task to be accomplished. New technologies and testing techniques are merged into BackTrack as soon as possible to keep it up-to-date.

No other commercial or freely available analysis platform offers an equivalent level of usability with automatic configuration and focus on penetration testing.
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BackTrack Clean Hard Drive Install

This method of installation is the simplest available. The assumption is that the whole hard drive is going to be used for BackTrack.

1. Boot BackTrack on the machine to be installed. Once booted, type in “startx” to get to the KDE graphical interface.
2. Double click the “install.sh” script on the desktop, or run the command “ubiquity” in console.
3. Select your geographical location and click “forward”.  Same for the Keyboard layout.
4. The next screen allows you to configure the partitioning layout. The assumption is that we are deleting the whole drive and installing BackTrack on it.
5. Accept the installation summary and client “Install”. Allow the installation to run and complete. Restart when done.
6. Log into BackTrack with the default username and password root / toor. Change root password.
7. Fix the framebuffer splash by typing “fix-splash” ( or “fix-splash800″ if you wish a 800×600 framebuffer), reboot.
8.   BackTrack 4 R2 Release ISO
9.  BackTrack 4 R2 Release VMware Image 

Sony Playstation phone aka Zeus leaked again

                         In the past few weeks, we talked a lot about the Sony Ericsson Playstation phone a.k.a Zeus, and we also saw some shots of it, and we heard that the phone will be launch officially this month. Now a video of the Playstation phone is rolling around the internet, and the video quality is very clear, in which we can see the SE Playstation phone clearly and almost in any angle. SE Playstation phone is running Android 2.3 Gingerbread, which we all know is going to be the next version of Android OS, and it’s expected to be out soon. It looks like this is the prototype version of the SE Playstation phone, but still we have an idea on how the phones looks like. SE Playstation phone is going to be a very desirable device for people who love portable gaming, and especially for PSP fans. PSP fans always wanted to have calling ability in their PSP, and soon their dream will come true. The name of the phone is not confirmed yet, so you can call it Zeus, Playstation Phone, or Z1. So folks, check out the video after the break, and tell us what do you think about it?

7 Best Web Sites To Download Free eBooks Legally

With number of eBooks readers in the market, eBooks are popular more than ever. And if you are looking for best web sites to download free eBooks legally, then we have a good list for you. These free eBooks or digital books can be read on desktops, laptops or any e-book readers.

Trick To Make Your Firefox Fast

      This Firefox tricks will improve the speed & load time of firefox. And you will be able to surf faster.


Type about:config in the address bar, Then look for the following entries, and make the corresponding changes.

 
network.http.max-connections-per-server =32
network.http.max-persistent-connections-per-proxy =16
network.http.max-connections = 64
network.http.max-persistent-connections-per-server = 10
network.http.pipelining = true
network.http.pipelining.maxrequests = 200
network.http.request.max-start-delay = 0
network.http.proxy.pipelining = true
network.http.proxy.version = 1.0
Lastly right-click anywhere and select New- Integer. Name it nglayout.initialpaint.delay and set its value to 0. This value is the amount of time the browser
waits before it acts on information it receives. Enjoy!!

New Features In First Windows Phone 7 Update [Rumor]

So there are rumors that the first update is ready for Windows 7 phone. I would certainly believe if someone tells me that there is an update ready for windows 7 phone but If someone tells me that there is a new generation mobile phone device that could not be updated, I will call it a rumor. Well the thing is that all the latest devices are manufactured in a way so that they can be updated easily and the glitches and bugs can be fixed without any hassles, at the same time with the facility to update a mobile device it becomes very easy for a person to get updated with the technology without changing a phone. It helps save a lot of money and environment as well.

Now talking about the windows 7 mobile phone, I am sure most of us would have had heard about it but still, like always I am going to give you some more facts. Windows phone 7 is a mobile operating system developed by Microsoft, and is the successor to their Windows Mobile Platform. It is aimed towards the consumer market instead of the enterprise market and that means that the latest technology is used to lure all the age group of customers. With Windows 7 phone Microsoft offers a new Metro user interface, and it integrates Microsoft’s other services into the mobile platform.

According to Microsoft documentation , software updates will be delivered to Windows Mobile phone users via Microsoft update. Microsoft has intentions to directly update any phone directly instead of relying on OEMs or Wireless Carriers. And it is also confirmed that update infrastructure system for windows 7 phone is already in place to effectively and reliably deliver updates. So there is no question in calling an upcoming update for Windows 7 phone a rumor and it was already confirmed that features like cut, copy, paste and full multi tasking will be arriving real soon. Some more features like hot swapping SD cards and custom ringtones, video calling and turn by turn navigation are not currently available on Windows 7 phone and will be most probably included in the upcoming update.

Increase your RAM and so system speed

1). Start any application, say Word. Open some large documents.