Best Network Security Tools

Posted by Daniel Kivatinos on Jul 30, 2010 in cryptography, software | 0 comments

These are the networking security tools I have used: nmap – A very powerful tool to check what ports are open on what machines and tells what machines are on your network. wireshark – Packet sniffing tool that reads and tells were the internal network packet attack might be coming from.

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Pretty Good Privacy (PGP)

Posted by Daniel Kivatinos on Sep 22, 2009 in cryptography | 0 comments

Question. What is PGP? Answer. PGP stands for Pretty Good Privacy. It is used to encrypt and decrypt data. Question. What is GPG (or GnuPG)? Answer. GPG stands for Gnu Privacy Guard (also called GnuPG). This is an open source substitute for PGP. Phil Zimmerman, creator of Pretty Good Privacy (PGP) interview: A great talk from Security Now! on PGP and crypto. PGP software may be obtained...

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How to get HTTPS (SSL) into Your Website

Posted by Daniel Kivatinos on Sep 22, 2009 in cryptography | 0 comments

You will need an SSL certificate, I recommend DigiCert. Other people on Server Fault recommend a few other certificate authorities (CA).

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