NSA backdoor patented by BlackBerry - Macworld

Jan 16. 2014 Jasper Bakker Google+

Jan 16. 2014 Jasper Bakker Google+

News – Encryption Standard Dual_EC_DRBG has a known vulnerability that recently as NSA backdoor is interpreted. In 2005, it applied for a patent. And that patent is owned by a BlackBerry daughter.

The patent is owned by the company Certicom, since early 2009, a wholly owned subsidiary of the Canadian smartphone maker BlackBerry (formerly RIM), says security expert Jeffrey Carr. Certicom boasts more than 350 patents (and patent applications) for Elliptic Curve Cryptography crucial aspects of (ECC). This includes a patent on creating random numbers above: elliptic curve random number generation

.

Those random numbers used for encrypting data, appear to be less random than expected. As a result, data encrypted with this standard method is not secured. Certicom itself reports that provide the core technology for the encyptiestandaard NSA Suite B which serves to secure government communications.

The flaw in this standard has been discovered in 2007 by security researchers at Microsoft. At that time, the U.S. National Security Agency was the biggest proponents and promoter of this encryption method, which was also the chief architect. Since last year, the outcoming revelations by whistleblower Edward Snowden have interpreted as a backdoor vulnerability deliberately applied, which makes a lot of dust controversy.

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NSA backdoor patented by BlackBerry - Macworld

Jan 16. 2014 Jasper Bakker Google+

Jan 16. 2014 Jasper Bakker Google+

News – Encryption Standard Dual_EC_DRBG has a known vulnerability that recently as NSA backdoor is interpreted. In 2005, it applied for a patent. And that patent is owned by a BlackBerry daughter.

The patent is owned by the company Certicom, since early 2009, a wholly owned subsidiary of the Canadian smartphone maker BlackBerry (formerly RIM), says security expert Jeffrey Carr. Certicom boasts more than 350 patents (and patent applications) for Elliptic Curve Cryptography crucial aspects of (ECC). This includes a patent on creating random numbers above: elliptic curve random number generation

.

Those random numbers used for encrypting data, appear to be less random than expected. As a result, data encrypted with this standard method is not secured. Certicom itself reports that provide the core technology for the encyptiestandaard NSA Suite B which serves to secure government communications.

The flaw in this standard has been discovered in 2007 by security researchers at Microsoft. At that time, the U.S. National Security Agency was the biggest proponents and promoter of this encryption method, which was also the chief architect. Since last year, the outcoming revelations by whistleblower Edward Snowden have interpreted as a backdoor vulnerability deliberately applied, which makes a lot of dust controversy.

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Blackberry wants Windows Phone support - ZDNet.nl

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BlackBerry 10.3 to support Android Apps - Android World

BlackBerry users will soon install Android apps on their device. This could have been a detour but once BlackBerry rolls out the latest firmware, it will be through the official channels.

BlackBerry 10

In November last year, the 10.2.1 software BlackBerry 10 leaked and various sources reported then that this version makes it possible to Android Apps ‘sideload’ on a BlackBerry device. There were even rumors that the Play Store could be. Installed on BlackBerry devices According to the U.S. Good E-Reader, several developers now approached their Android apps to add a new section within BlackBerry World, the official application store for BlackBerry.

least four game developers would have confirmed at CES that they are prompted to add BlackBerry World. their Android apps In addition, there would be no need to be changed to the apps developers only need to send to BlackBerry World and within a profile to their icon. Apk file can be installed. Directly to BlackBerry devices

sideload

sideload Android apps was possible previously for BlackBerry users, but in a roundabout way. From the PC, you can convert the. Apk files to. Pub files, which are suitable for the BlackBerry. The update would be superfluous and Android apps should be without these being.

first ported so just downloaded from the store

Developers could also already put convert their Android Applications to BlackBerry app and make it available in the BlackBerry World for users. Developers were granted mostly enticed by bonuses, free development apparatus and developer meetings. However, only a limited part of all Android Capabilities supported, so not all apps were fit to be a BlackBerry app converted. It now seems possible that use much more of the features of Android BlackBerry will be making a larger portion of the apps might work on that platform.

Play Store

When the latest BB firmware leaked in November of last year, it was speculated that even the Google Play Store would work on BlackBerry devices. This seems to be a myth, and also somewhat redundant, since the apps will be. Simply download at BlackBerry World

Ports

BlackBerry user will probably not even that much difference marks the apps that are now added to BlackBerry World. Many apps have been called ‘ports’ of Android apps, which means that they are almost one-to-one copied to BlackBerry. A year ago it was already about 40 percent of all BlackBerry apps a port from another platform.

Due to the high number of ports, the range in the application store for BlackBerry diverse qualitative and miss many apps standard BlackBerry look, something in the early days of Android often saw and we still regularly encounter in the Google Play Store.

Availability

BlackBerry has not given a date for the release of the new firmware 10.3. According to some sources, it would already be done but wait until the release of BlackBerry logged at least 10,000 Android apps. So it can still take some time.

"Android Apps coming soon for download at BlackBerry World '- Nutech

Blackberry users are likely to get the possible Android apps on their Blackberry’s soon-to-install.

Reported that Goodereader.com .

The website spoke with several developers of Android games that confirm that Blackberry has asked to place their apps in Blackberry World application store them company.

After a firmware update of the Blackberry as possible. variety of third-party apps on the phones It then goes through a detour. Called apk files can then be downloaded from Web sites and then be unpacked on the phone outside the app store.

instance that is already available on Android phones. Blackberry would however install Android apps easier by offering them. Themselves through Blackberry World

Developers do not need to adjust. their apps They have to upload only. Registered and imagery in the application store It is not that all Android apps automatically available.

Blackberry is the last time in a difficult period. The sales and financial results are disappointing. Meanwhile a new CEO to power.

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What Blackberry should do - Express.be

There is a chance that this column soon “What BlackBerry should have done” will be called. The state of the Canadian company looks bleak. New products such as the music service, BBM and Blackberry Playbook failed and even the new Z10 phone, one without the iconic keyboard, flopped. With all that bad news, the customers lost massive confidence in the company and in a spontaneous reaction gave BlackBerry whatsoever but confident consumers and decided to stop making products for individuals. The market value has shrunk to just 5% of what the company was once worth.

According to traditional marketing BlackBerry however has done everything right: expansion of the range, the segment trying to dominate, but it has just lost the battle. Operation successful, patient deceased. Thus, the market is now working once.

According to the conceptual marketing BlackBerry has done everything wrong, however, and has therefore failed to succeed where it was an easy option. How then should proceed? Had More so, how is it that still, because I think it is, despite everything, at the time of writing this column is still not too late.

The first task for BlackBerry is to look where they are good at and absolutely can be, what makes them different from the competition the best. Before the Z10 you could still say that the presence of a keyboard was the big difference. According to the conceptual marketing you must find a value that goes beyond a regular feature. The fundamental value, which lasts longer and harder to copy. Then you should try to create value as dominant as possible: You have to convince people that the value you enter, the most important factor is to choose, in this case, to buy

a mobile phone.

BlackBerry and has had all the elements in there hands. Their value should be: privacy. It is a hot item and BlackBerry has everything you need to make this happen. In the field of marketing is the most important asset that people can believe this. More than that BlackBerry had that reputation. Do you remember that Obama when he took office as president wanted to give up his BlackBerry away and that no one was able to secure it? 100% A great base to work further on even now, many years later. Moreover, they have the trend with: privacy is a hot item , in particular by making revelations Snowden cs

.

BlackBerry this card fully plays out, wait for her a great future, because that gets the brand in one fell swoop a huge image boost. Walking around with a BlackBerry again shows that you are important. Businessmen, politicians, gangsters, celebrities and anyone who rubs against the image of those people will want a BlackBerry. The allocation of investment budgets is easy: all their developments should try to keep hackers out. Nothing better for a brand than a constructive enemy that us-against-hengevoel strengthened. And apps, they can do anything in there? Of course, as long as they respect the privacy and not, as now your phone virtually take over. Wow, BlackBerry might have.

a bright future

BlackBerry making the same mistakes again - Computerworld.nl

Opinion – The new CEO John Chen said the same things wrong as its predecessors. Thus he crushes all hope of a possible recovery for BlackBerry.

When

poised on the brink of the abyss BlackBerry last year, I really gave them the benefit of the doubt. Especially because after years of stubbornly sticking to an antique platform had the courage to launch. Modern smartphone operating system BlackBerry 10

In 2011 I was less kind to the Canadian company, and I predicted that they could close. tent in no time But that was not so strange, as directors of BlackBerry apps then proclaimed that would blow over, businesses would never change because of the lack of security and especially users would attach to phones with a physical keyboard on iOS value.

Everything according to plan

2012 BlackBerry experienced several near-death experiences, and sent the two co-founders sacked because they refused to adapt to the modern era. The new CEO Thorsten Heins came from the CFO position and although he pretended everything went according to plan, he said that there were real changes needed.

also the completely revised BlackBerry 10 OS brought the company smartphones with physical keyboards:

He brought after lengthy delays and a gap of two years, the long awaited new models with BlackBerry OS 10 – the Z10 and Q10. This would have been great smartphones in 2009, but in 2013 they were no more than okay. Still, it was a lot better than the old way to go, and then I had really hope that there are several positive steps would follow.

Yet again BB7

Unfortunately, almost no one bought a Z10 or Q10 – BlackBerry fans continued to fall for the discounted cost (BB7) models that capture dust layers in distribution. Heins after the world had held that the sale went like a train months he had to admit that the sale was a small disaster.

At the same time sowed confusion BlackBerry his devotion to the new operating system to continue with the outdated OS 7. devices on the market Heins put the business for sale, but nobody wanted it. The CEO was fired in the fall and replaced by former Sybase CEO John Chen – who has built a lot of credit in the sector

.

Hope glimmers

Chen put out immediately from shore about how wonderful everything would be once BlackBerry focused on its core business: the business market. Especially BES security and MDM capabilities of the platform offer hope. He spent part of the hardware business to Foxconn to save money and to spread the financial risk. (Although his predecessor had put. Process already underway)

glimmers of light at the end of the tunnel for BB?

I thought at that time that BlackBerry would reinvention as a niche vendor, for example, public services will require stronger security and at the same time would like to stick with BES his spot on the MDM market, which has expanded to iOS and Android management. That was not a glorious future, but an achievable goal. I was therefore disagree with the story of Gartner, companies BlackBerry better left to leave.

On the next page: Keyboard BlackBerry rescue! Again.