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Data exchange is a core part of all cloud systems so it becomes necessarily important to control access to data that are confidential and whose integrity influences the state of the system at any time.It can be proven that the administrator in a IaaS can easily perform some hidden and malicious task on unsuspecting customer machine. This is attributed to the fact that he/she possesses the root privilege to do so and forms an attack. A cold boot attack can easily be lauched amongst other attacks by the privilege user or system administrator.A simple attack scenario could be that a customer pays a virtual machine at Amazon EC2 (Provider) and the systemadmin (Privilidged User) who is, for instance, threatened to be fired, has access to the same virtual machine state, this priviledged user can easily leak customer’s data. ...

P.I.G.: Privacy In Gedit, a plugin for gedit, encode and decode text to base64.

The OpenSSL shell/batch script collection offers insight in how to setup a hierarchical PKI structure consisting of a Root CA, several sub CA's and end entity digital certificates. The scripts are available for unix and windows.

Set of tools needed to setup and maintain encrypted partitions under unix systems (initially linux). Especially helpfull when doing root device encryption. Features xml configuration, multiple users, usb "tokens" (usb mass storage) and key hierarchy.

The aim of this project is to create a set of basic java tools for developers who need Certificate Authority (CA) root certificates and user certificates signed by the CA.