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Expert Opinions

“Briefly and simply, assurance work makes a user or a creditor more confident that the system works as intended without flaws, without surprises, even in the presence of malice.” … “The major shortfall is absence of assurance or safety mechanisms in software. If my car crashed as often as my computer does, I’d be dead by now.”

Brian Snow, Former Technical Director of the US National Security Agency (NSA), "We need Assurance", AusCERT 2008

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“In the next five years we will counter many 'hacker' attacks but we will not be safe from Nation States and other large entities”

Brian Snow, Former Technical Director of the US National Security Agency (NSA), "We need assurance!", 1999-2008

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"Dropping support for a broken crypto primitive is hard in practice
- but crypto can be broken overnight
- what do we do if SHA-1 or RSA falls tomorrow?"

Alexander Sotirov, Marc Stevens, Jacob Appelbaum, Arjen Lenstra, David Molnar, Dag Arne Osvik, Benne de Wegerr, "MD5 considered harmful today - Creating a rogue CA certificate", December 2008
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Synaptic website articles

This section contains various short website articles written by Synaptic Laboratories.

Synaptic publications

This section contains Synaptic Laboratories printed white papers, slide shows and specifications.

Can't find an expert opinion that is cycling on our website? Interested in reading an expert opinion in more depth? This section includes the long version of a wide selection of expert opinions on information assurance and quantum computing.

Frequently Asked Questions

This section contains an extensive range of facts and frequently asked questions on security and hardware related issues. The information in this section has been targeted for a wide reading audience.

Streaming Videos

This page hold's links to various online streaming video series. Videos range from a few minutes up to an hour depending on the series. You can find Synaptic Labs' Cybersecurity Video Series from this page.

Security bibliography

An annotated partially cross-referenced bibliography of security publications with links to full-text online sources where available.

Hardware bibliography

An annotated partially cross-referenced bibliography of semiconductor and general hardware publications with links to full-text online sources where available.

As part of Synaptic Labs' research and development process we have compiled a comprehensive multi-domain knowledge base. We publish portions of this information openly on our website. Click on a link above to select a section.