Similar to  last year, FBI has arranged second round of Cryptanalysis contest.

Hope someone would find this interesting!!

Recently researches were able to find a loop hole in SSL certificate implementation which could could make any secure website (relying on md5 hashing of CA certificates) vulnerable to nearly undetectable phishing attack.

To brief the attack:

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Hey There !

Welcome back to read my post. Today I was trying to read a mail that one of my friends had sent me yesterday. The email was encrypted with a very well known encryption. — PGP. Those who know this terminology, are well aware of what PGP is. However, let me explain in brief to those who are unaware of PGP. PGP or Pretty Good Privacy, is an encryption standard that is widely used for encrypting your emails. Such that only the sender and receiver knows the content inside the mail. Even if the mail is sniffed on its way from source to destination, its contents could not be read.

Thanks to the technology of asymmetric cryptography, where a message is encrypted with receiver’s public key, sent to the destination, and the receiver then decrypts it with his private key. This, and many more ways exists to encrypt the text messages across Internet.

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