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France, United States
THE FEARLESS CODE BUSTERS

Damien Doligez, a 27-year-old French research worker who took a job at the Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et [...]

Published on 31/08/1995 at 10:00 GMT Reading time 2 minutes

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Spotlight | United States
IBM AND MICROSOFT, THEIR SECRET ALLIANCES

In recent months the Pentagon and NSA have undertaken secret and direct negotiations with the bosses of IBM and Microsoft to get them to install systems enabling the intelligence community to gain access to encrypted data.

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Spotlight | Europe, United States
GSM CELLULAR PHONES INCREASINGLY UNRELIABLE

Over the past six months a roaring trade has sprung up on back-street markets for equipment to intercept cellular telephone calls that had once been reserved for government intelligence and law enforcement agencies. The risk that GSM networks are being [.

Subscribers only 10.06.1999

United Kingdom
INTRANET SECURITY DEEMED UNSAFE

The Communications Electronics Security Group (CESG), a division of Britain's SIGINT organization GCHQ that vets information technology products for government [...]

Subscribers only 19.02.1998

United States
ARMY UNDER NETSCAPE COLORS

The U.S. armed forces have adopted Netscape for its communications. [...]

Subscribers only 23.10.1997

United Kingdom, United States
GETTING AROUND EXPORT CURB

Two companies, UK Web Ltd. and C2Net Software, Inc., have [...]

Subscribers only 27.03.1997

United States
PROTECTING SENSITIVE DOCUMENTS

An Atlanta-based company specializing in encryption software for the Internet, [...]

Subscribers only 30.01.1997

United States
SECURING DATA ON THE INTERNET

Hewlett-Packard claims to have developed an encryption framework for securing [...]

Subscribers only 28.11.1996

Spotlight | Europe
KEYS OF THE SECURITY KINGDOM

European legislation on encryption is widely varied. For instance, Dirk Heuze, head of BSI, the German information security agency, strongly recommends that companies encrypt their messages on the Internet. His French counterpart, gen. Jean-Louis Desvignes, head of the Service Central [.

Subscribers only 18.07.1996

United States
EASING THE GLOBAL RULES

New international rules and technical standards for cryptography that both the U.S. government and the majority of Western nations could [...]

Subscribers only 07.03.1996

United States
FBI AND IRS LOBBY TOGETHER

American intelligence services are known to be strongly opposed to [...]

Subscribers only 11.01.1996

United States
SCRAMBLER FOR SENSITIVE MESSAGES

Most users working in companies or government services who need to protect their messages don't do so because encryption software [...]

Subscribers only 12.10.1995

France
A COMPUTER SPY UNMASKED

For years Jean-Bernard Condat has undoubtedly been France's best-known computer hacker. Appearing on television talk shows, launching provocative operations and [...]

Subscribers only 12.10.1995

Spotlight | France, United States
DAWN OF THE INFOWAR ERA

A small group of American hackers who claimed to be infuriated over French economic spying against the U.S. were preparing this summer to mount an electronic assault on the main nerve centers of the French economy.

Subscribers only 14.09.1995

Spotlight | Russia, United States
THE SCRAMBLE FOR RUSSIAN COMPUTER NETWORKS

The Russians and Americans have been racing in recent months to grab control of computer networks in Russia. In the early days of perestroika the U.S. acted through various foundations and universities to equip many Russian scientists with computers and [.

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United States
WILL NAUTILUS SCUPPER CLIPPER CHIP?

Three American programmers, Bill Dorsey, Pat Mullarky and Paul Rubin, last month began using Internet to distribute the Beta version [...]

Subscribers only 31.05.1995

Spotlight | Middle East, United States
INTELLIGENCE BATTLE IN CYBERSPACE

The huge information arena created by Internet has become a new, world-wide battleground for leading intelligence services. The same struggles that took place up to now in the "real" world are unfolding at present in cyberspace.

Subscribers only 26.04.1995

Spotlight | United States
CRYPTOGRAPHY BATTLE

On Thursday 19 May the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) announced the adoption of the Digital Signature Standard (DSS) as the Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS) 186. As such DSS is to provide unforgeable digital signatures to all [.

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Spotlight | Europe, United States
GSM CELLULAR PHONES INCREASINGLY UNRELIABLE

United Kingdom
INTRANET SECURITY DEEMED UNSAFE

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ARMY UNDER NETSCAPE COLORS

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GETTING AROUND EXPORT CURB

United States
PROTECTING SENSITIVE DOCUMENTS

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SECURING DATA ON THE INTERNET

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KEYS OF THE SECURITY KINGDOM

United States
EASING THE GLOBAL RULES

United States
FBI AND IRS LOBBY TOGETHER

United States
SCRAMBLER FOR SENSITIVE MESSAGES

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A COMPUTER SPY UNMASKED

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DAWN OF THE INFOWAR ERA

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WILL NAUTILUS SCUPPER CLIPPER CHIP?

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INTELLIGENCE BATTLE IN CYBERSPACE

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CRYPTOGRAPHY BATTLE

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Spotlight | United States IBM AND MICROSOFT, THEIR SECRET ALLIANCES

Spotlight | Europe, United States GSM CELLULAR PHONES INCREASINGLY UNRELIABLE

United Kingdom INTRANET SECURITY DEEMED UNSAFE

United States ARMY UNDER NETSCAPE COLORS

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United States PROTECTING SENSITIVE DOCUMENTS

United States SECURING DATA ON THE INTERNET

Spotlight | Europe KEYS OF THE SECURITY KINGDOM

United States EASING THE GLOBAL RULES

United States FBI AND IRS LOBBY TOGETHER

United States SCRAMBLER FOR SENSITIVE MESSAGES

France A COMPUTER SPY UNMASKED

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Spotlight | United States CRYPTOGRAPHY BATTLE

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China, Europe, India, Russia, Saudi Arabia, UAE, United States
The geopolitical power plays in Earth observation

France
Intelligence memos and grey zones before French courts

Central America, China, South America
Beijing on the offensive in Washington's spheres of influence

Ukraine
Jamming wars

Armenia, Azerbaijan, France
Information wars in the Caucasus

Insiders | China
Security, propaganda and the PLA: Xi Jinping forges new networks of influence

Insiders | Qatar
Barzan Holdings, Qatar's defence industry giant springing up out of the desert

France, United States
THE FEARLESS CODE BUSTERS

Spotlight | United States
IBM AND MICROSOFT, THEIR SECRET ALLIANCES

Spotlight | Europe, United States
GSM CELLULAR PHONES INCREASINGLY UNRELIABLE

United Kingdom
INTRANET SECURITY DEEMED UNSAFE

United States
ARMY UNDER NETSCAPE COLORS

United Kingdom, United States
GETTING AROUND EXPORT CURB

United States
PROTECTING SENSITIVE DOCUMENTS

United States
SECURING DATA ON THE INTERNET

Spotlight | Europe
KEYS OF THE SECURITY KINGDOM

United States
EASING THE GLOBAL RULES

United States
FBI AND IRS LOBBY TOGETHER

United States
SCRAMBLER FOR SENSITIVE MESSAGES

France
A COMPUTER SPY UNMASKED

Spotlight | France, United States
DAWN OF THE INFOWAR ERA

Spotlight | Russia, United States
THE SCRAMBLE FOR RUSSIAN COMPUTER NETWORKS

United States
WILL NAUTILUS SCUPPER CLIPPER CHIP?

Spotlight | Middle East, United States
INTELLIGENCE BATTLE IN CYBERSPACE

Spotlight | United States
CRYPTOGRAPHY BATTLE