The Jihadist Encryption Campaign
By Douglas Farah
One finds interesting articles in unexpected places these days. Recently Computerworld looked at the use of Jihadi encrytion on their websites. Shows how much the world has changed, when computer magazines start paying attention to this stuff.
This includes a new version of an already-existing encryption system offered from a website hosted in Florida that claims to be "the first Islamic computer program for secure exchange [of information] on the Internet," providing users with "the five best encryption algorithms, and with symmetrical encryption keys (256 bit), asymmetrical encryption keys (2048 bit) and data compression [tools]."
Dubbed Mujahadeen Secrets 2, the Ekhlaas website said the newer iteration is a "special edition of the software was developed and issued by ... Ekhlaas in order to support the mujahideen in general and the (al Qaeda-linked group) Islamic State in Iraq in particular."
This shows three things: that the outside world has grown increasingly better at monitoring their unencrypted communications; that the jihadists have the technological wherewithal to take their communications to the next level; and that they still apparently like to operate out of the United States. My full blog is here.
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