How to change a Default Certificate (SecureZIP encryption and authentication tutorial)
This video will show you how to change the default certificate used during encryption and signing with our SecureZIP data security software. SecureZIP gives users encryption and authentication...

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Apple/Google State Run Encryption COVERT PSYCHE
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The Tek 0148: Only Criminals Use Encryption!
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When Microsoft announced message encryption for Office 365 in November, it came with a potentially annoying requirement: People receiving the encrypted messages had to be logged into a Microsoft account to view them.

That was all well and good if they were a Microsoft customer, but everyone else had to sign up for a Microsoft account before they could view their encrypted messages.

Perhaps realizing this was an inconvenience -- because, as it turns out, not everyone on Earth uses Microsoft's services -- the company has removed this requirement.

Now, recipients who don't have a Microsoft account -- or who have one but aren't logged into it -- can view their encrypted message using a one-time passcode that Microsoft will send to them via email. They'll then have 15 minutes to use the passcode to view their encrypted message.

"You can then choose to reply to the message or forward it. All responses you make will be encrypted," wrote Shobhit Sahay, an Office 365 technical product manager, in a blog post on Friday.

Office 365 Message Encryption, which replaced Exchange Hosted Encryption, went live in February and since then has been used to protect the content of more than 1 million emails, according to Sahay.

The service is included at no extra charge with the E3 and E4 editions of Office 365. It also comes bundled with the standalone version of Azure Rights Management, which costs US$2 per user/month.

Juan Carlos Perez covers enterprise communication/collaboration suites, operating systems, browsers and general technology breaking news for The IDG News Service. Follow Juan on Twitter at @JuanCPerezIDG.

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By Editorial Board October 3

LAW ENFORCEMENT officials deserve to be heard in their recent warnings about the impact of next-generation encryption technology on smartphones, such as Apples new iPhone. This is an important moment in which technology, privacy and the rule of law are colliding.

Apple announced Sept. 17 that its latest mobile operating system, iOS 8, includes encryption so thorough that the company will not be able to unlock it for law enforcement. The encryption is to be set by the user, and Apple will not retain the key. Googles next version of its popular Android operating system also will be unlockable by the company. Both insist they are giving consumers ironclad privacy protection. The moves are in large part a response to public worries about National Security Agency surveillance of Internet and telephone metadata revealed by former government contractor Edward Snowden.

What has the law enforcement community up in arms is the prospect of losing access to the data on these smartphones in cases where they have a valid, court-approved search warrant. The technology firms, while pledging to honor search warrants in other situations, say they simply wont possess the ability to unlock the smartphones. Only the owner of the phone, who set up the encryption, will be able to do that. Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. said this could imperil investigations in kidnapping and other cases; FBI Director James B. Comey said he could not understand why the tech companies would market something expressly to allow people to place themselves beyond the law.

This is not about mass surveillance. Law enforcement authorities are not asking for the ability to surveil everyones smartphone, only those relatively few cases where there is a court-approved search warrant. This seems reasonable and not excessively intrusive. After all, the government in many other situations has a right and responsibility to set standards for products so that laws are followed. Why not smartphones? Moreover, those worried about privacy can take solace from the Supreme Courts decision in June in Riley v. California, which acknowledged the large amount of private information on smartphones and said a warrant is generally required before a search.

Law enforcement will not be entirely without tools in criminal investigations. Data stored in the cloud and other locations will still be available; wiretaps, too. But smartphone users must accept that they cannot be above the law if there is a valid search warrant.

How to resolve this? A police back door for all smartphones is undesirable a back door can and will be exploited by bad guys, too. However, with all their wizardry, perhaps Apple and Google could invent a kind of secure golden key they would retain and use only when a court has approved a search warrant. Ultimately, Congress could act and force the issue, but wed rather see it resolved in law enforcement collaboration with the manufacturers and in a way that protects all three of the forces at work: technology, privacy and rule of law.

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