Jihadi software promises secure web communication

[David G. Koontz]

http://www.stuff.co.nz/4365478a28.html

An Islamist website often used by al Qaeda supporters is promoting
encryption software which it says will help Islamic militants communicate
with greater security on the internet.

The Mujahideen Secrets 2 software was promoted as "the first Islamic program
for secure communications through networks with the highest technical level
of encoding".

The software, available free on the password-protected Ekhlaas.org site
which often carries al Qaeda messages, is a newer version of Mujahideen
Secrets issued in early 2007 by the Global Islamic Media Front, an al
Qaeda-linked web-based group.

"This special edition of the software was developed and issued by ...
Ekhlaas in order to support the mujahideen (holy war fighters) in general
and the (al Qaeda-linked group) Islamic State in Iraq in particular," the
site said.

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On the other hand, imagine if the software were compromised by a TLA in the
spirit of the recent revival of interest of Crypto AG?  What a coup that
would be.  Of course vulnerabilities can be simply a matter of using the
wrong random number generator...






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