In the indictment that led to the expulsion of ten Russian spies from the U.S. in the summer of 2010, the FBI said that it gained access to their communications after surreptitiously entering one of the spies' homes, during which agents found a piece of paper with a 27-character password.

In other words, the FBI found it more productive to burglarize a house than to crack a 216-bit code, despite having the computational resources of the U.S. government behind it.

That's because modern cryp...

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Cloud computing is an idea 'whose time has come', it has been claimed.

According to a recent study by Frost & Sullivan, the majority of businesses have either entered discussion regarding cloud computing or have already deployed the technology.

The trend comes despite Frost & Sullivan highlighting speculation that the technology is 'yet another vaporware'.

Arun Chandrasekaran, research manager at the organisation, explained: 'There is a growing awareness amongst consumers and enterprises to acce...
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