Malicious cryptography

[Erin Carroll <amoeba () amoebazone com>]

The following Infocus technical article was published on SecurityFocus 
today:

Malicious cryptography, part 1

This two-part article series looks at how cryptography is a double-edged 
sword: it is used to make us safer, but it is also being used for 
malicious purposes within sophisticated viruses. Part one introduces the 
concepts behind cryptovirology and offers examples of malicious 
potential with the SuckIt rootkit and a possible SSH worm. It then 
introduces armored viruses that use shape shifting (polymorphism and 
metamorphism) to avoid detection.

By Frederic Raynal
2006-05-08

http://www.securityfocus.com/infocus/1865






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