Author Archives: Robert Chesebrough (Intel)

Mathematicians from Europe and the United States are reporting a flaw in the RSA encryption method that apparently hinges on crypto keys being created with insufficient randomness. Enter Intel’s Bull Mountain technology. Bull Mountain is a hardware based digital random number generator which will be released this year when the processor, code named “Ivy Bridge” is launched. Bull Mountain allows digital random numbers to be generated at near clock cycle speeds and with a very high degree of randomness or “entropy”. Continue reading →

Developers are urged to find these kinds of bugs using tools such as Intel Static Security Analysis, and then make it a practice to validate all inputs and replace unsafe functions (strcpy, strncpy, strcat, and gets, among others) with safe counterparts. To learn more about steps you can take as a developer to reduce your exposure to security attacks go to the Department of Homeland Security’s Build Security In website or visit the Common Weakness Evaluation site. Continue reading →

To understand how the AES Rijndael algorithm works I highly recommend that you look at Jeff Moser’s “A Stick Figure Guide to the Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) – A play in 4 acts”. This creative stick figure cartoon approach to describing the AES algorithm is one of the best ways I have seen for communicating how AES works. Continue reading →

To understand how the AES Rijndael algorithm works I highly recommend that you look at Jeff Moser’s “A Stick Figure Guide to the Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) – A play in 4 acts”. This creative stick figure cartoon approach to describing the AES algorithm is one of the best ways I have seen for communicating how AES works. Continue reading →

Intel is showcasing Anti-theft & Identity Protection Technologies Continue reading →

I am back from a very interesting 25th year anniversary of the IPDPS conference in Anchorage Alaska. I was able to interact with a number of professors and bounce ideas around on parallel education. To learn more about what occurred at IPDPS take a look at Lauren Dankiewicz’ blog where she lays out the conference [...] Continue reading →