A bomb goes off in a marketplace in Jerusalem. A suicide bomber
launches himself into a bus full of women and children in Tel Aviv.
Foreign tourists get massacred at a holiday resort in Luxor, Egypt.
Villages upon villages get annihilated in Algeria. The list of events
worldwide which have come to symbolise the 'Islamic terror' are
endless. From the times in the 70's and 80's when Pan Am and TWA
aeroplanes would be highjacked, to the mid 80's in war torn Lebanon
where Americans and Europeans would be held as hostages for years; all
such incidents have come to be identified with the religion of Islam.
Such incidents from past and present have undoubtedly affected Muslims
worldwide and more so in the West. Any Muslim, who wants to practice
his/her religion and expresses the pious desire to live under the
banner of Islam, is labelled a fundamentalist or extremist. Any Muslim
man who walks down a busy street in London or Paris (and Paris moreso)
with a beard and a scarf on his head, is looked upon as being a
terrorist who's probably got an AK47 stashed somewhere on his person.
Muslim women who are veiled can't go anywhere in the Western world
without being taunted as being oppressed or being mad (for covering
up). However, are such beliefs and opinions about Islam really
justified? ...

According to this report, Interpol managed to gain access to 983
encrypted files, using 10 computers running continuously for 2 weeks.

It would be interesting to know what type of encryption it was, as 2
weeks seems rather quick. If encryption can be cracked in such a short
time, it rather weakens one of the UK Government's arguments for
needing to extend the detention without charge limit for terrorism
suspects.

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/afp/20080516/twl-venezuela-colombia-rebels-interpol-4bdc673...

According to this report, Interpol manage to gain access to 983
encrypted files, using 10 computers running continuously for 2 weeks.

It would be interesting to know what type of encryption it was, as 2
weeks seems rather quick. If encryption can be cracked in such a short
time, it rather weakens one of the UK Government's arguments for
needing to extend the detention without charge limit for terrorism
suspects.

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/afp/20080516/twl-venezuela-colombia-rebels-interpol-4bdc673...

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http://www.iaeng.org/WCECS2008/ICIAR2008.html

The conference ICIAR'08 is held under the World Congress on
Engineering 2008. The WCECS 2008 is organized by the International
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Khalid ibn El Waleed (RA) narrated the following hadith: A Bedouin
came one day to the Prophet (SAW) and said to him, "0, Messenger of
Allah! I've come to ask you a few questions about the affairs of this
Life and the Here After."

-Ask what you wish.

Q: I'd like to be the most learned of men.

A: Fear Allah, and you will be the most learned of men.

Q: I wish to be the richest man in the world.

A: Be contented, and you will be the richest man in the world.

Q: I'd like to be the most just man.

A: Desire for others what you desire for yourself, and you will be the
most just of men.

Q: I want to be the best of men.

A: Do good to others and you will be the best of men.

Q: I wish to be the most favored by Allah.

A: Engage much in Allah's praise, and you will be most favored by Him.

Q: I'd like to complete my faith.

A: If you have good manners you will complete your faith

Q: I wish to be among those who do good.

Hi All,

I am looking for free opensource ASN1 C++ library for DER encoding and
Decoding. I have found Libtasn1. But I am trying to find out other
ASN1 libraries, so that i can select appropriate one for my work.

Please suggest ASN1 libary which works in Windows and IBM AIX
platforms.

Regards,
Kamal.

I am new to the world of encryption. I recently completed a module at
university about encryption and thought I would try and write on own
simple encryption program. I have managed to use AES, Triple-DES and
some twists on old ciphers. I have tried to implement a simple version
of the GCHQ Diffie-Hellman key exchange. The program itself a TCP/IP
client and server socket that allows chat and file transfer using the
mentioned encryptions.

The source code for the application can be found at the following
link.

http://users.aber.ac.uk/jap6/filedetails.php?id=encryption&type=zip

I understand that I should make sure that the Diffie-Hellman key
exchange numbers should be thousands of digits long and I am currently
making the changes for this to happen (Using a BigInteger like class).
My prime number Class uses the Sieve of Atkin function for letting me
know if a number is prime, this method seems to be very good at
telling me if a number is not prime.

Please can I have some feed back on how to improve the program and or
code that I have written.

Regards j1mb0jay

Hi All,

I did a quick sanity check on performance of my RSA implementation
with following parameters:

p =
102639592829741105772054196573991675900716567808038066803341933521790711307779
q =
106603488380168454820927220360012878679207958575989291522270608237193062808643

n = p * q [n has bit 511 set]

e = 17

I caculate [ciphertext = plaintext raised to e mod n] at just over
44,000 operations per second.

My code is un-optimized C++, with some assistive assembly, compiled
under Visual C++ 2005, running in Release mode on:

Microsoft® Windows Vista™ Ultimate
AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 3600+, 1900 Mhz, 2 Core(s), 2
Logical Processor(s)
2.0 GB RAM

For a quick comparison I looked an OpenSSL performance table:

http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-performance/2004-November/000956.html

I would be interested to store RSA and DSA key pairs (that is,
both private and public keys) to persistent storage in a platform-
independent way. I am not aware of any officially anointed formats out
there for this purpose, but maybe somebody in this forum knows better.

Feedback, anyone?