This page describes the types of services that PPC can provide in this field.
Business Continuity: You cannot take risks with your business
and unforeseen events can happen to even the best of companies, despite
all precautions. Let PPC help you develop an efficient and cost-effective
process to ensure that your company is protected, and can respond to the
ever-changing threats in the modern world. Business continuity strategies
need not be costly, and could save your business.
Cryptology: Cryptology is a technology that allows commerce
to operate with security and privacy. There are also many other things
possible with the effective use of cryptology, and articles are available
on this subject. PPC can help businesses integrate this technology into
their operations, and make it a cost-effective tool in their enterprise.
Security: We can work with you to develop information security
policies and implement them rapidly. Standards such as BS 7799 can be
used to reduce much of the work needed to make a business secure. PPC
will help you meet your confidentiality, integrity and availability targets
for your information, one of the prime assets of your business.
Cryptology
Generator is
a client-side utility that provides the highest level of password
security available to client-side
JavaScript. It uses the secure hash standard (SHA-1, 1995), and
the routines are available for use in JavaScript programs.
The test system runs the SHA-1
utility described above through 232 NIST test vectors, to confirm
that the utility works.
The Nist Cryptographic Module Program Site tells
you all about the secure hash standard and provides the original
versions of the test vectors.
NSA Study is a paper that discusses
the possible technical capability of the NSA to attack and break
block cyphers. It is the first step in a continuing study (PDF version).
Million is a worked out example of
a special cryptological protocol, created by Andrew Yao, that allows
two millionaires to work out who is richer, without either actually
disclosing their worth (PDF version). It
is a nice example of how cryptology allows exact control and release
of information.
Consultation Paper Responses
ACD03 is a short response to the Home Office’s ‘Access to Communications Data. Respecting Privacy and Protecting the
Public from Crime. A Consultation Paper.’, which requested responses by 3 June 2003 (PDF Version). The proposal is to expand the range of public authorities with access to communications data; our view is that such expansion should be as limited as possible, and there should be specific controls commensurate with the level of intrusiveness of the access.
EC03 is a very brief response to the DTI’s ‘Consultation Document on Draft Orders to be Made Under the Export Control Act 2002’,
which requested responses by 30 April 2003 (PDF Version).
It highlights a number of issues with regard to the export of
intangibles.
IDC03 is a longer response to the Home Office’s ‘Entitlement Cards and Identity Fraud: A Consultation’,
which requested responses by 31 January 2003 (PDF Version).
This response is not in favour of the proposals.
DTI99 is the response
by PPCL to the DTI's ‘Building Confidence in Electronic Commerce’
document (URN 99/642, no longer on the DTI site), which requested
responses by 1 April 1999 (PDF version).
The response is supportive of the Government’s initiative whilst
going into some of the more detailed issues that are raised by
the DTI. However, it does not fully agree with all the DTI proposals,
and highlights areas where more discussion is required.
Internet Security
Upinnov97 is a set of notes that
supported a talk given by John R T Brazier at the Innovations
97 Conference, 15/16 September 1997 (PDF version).
The talk discussed general Internet security and covered
modern cryptology, and is an ageing introduction to these topics.
If you do not have the Adobe Acrobat reader, here is a copy on the Adobe site.
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