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Gold Lock, a provider of secure mobile communications devices and computer-based encryption products, increases its $100,000 reward to $250,000 for anyone that can defeat the company’s voice encryption protection.

Tel Aviv, Israel , 7th December 2009 – Gold Lock (www.gold-lock.com), a leading provider of military-grade secure mobile communications devices and data encryption tools, wants more spies, hackers and professional communications eavesdroppers to try to unseat the company’s position as a top provider of secure voice and data solutions. To make sure word hits the streets, the company has increased the reward to $250,000 in pure gold.

It was just a month ago that Gold Lock announced its $100k Gold Challenge. The company posted a sample encrypted telephone conversation on its web site and invited anyone to download and decrypt it. The company offered $100,000 in gold, as well as a position at the company, to the first person to send a transcript of the call. And while file downloads have been brisk, the company is turning up the heat.

The company reports well over one thousand downloads since it announced the challenge, but that’s not nearly as many downloads as had been expected.  By increasing the reward to $250,000, Gold Lock hopes to draw more challengers out of the shadows.

Gold Lock is well known as a worldwide provider of comprehensive end-to-end IT and cellular encryption solutions. “Since 2003 we have been telling everyone how our products provide unbreakable protection for their voice and data transmissions, but talk is cheap. So now we are putting our claims to the ultimate test by inviting anyone that thinks they have the skills to take us down,” said Noam Copel, Gold Lock’s CEO.

The increased attention doesn’t worry him.  “I don’t think there is a chance at all that I’ll be giving away the gold. No individual, group or intelligence agency has the skills, technology or time needed to defeat our technology,” Mr. Copel continued.

Gold Lock products utilize technology so powerful they have been licensed by the Israeli Ministry of Defense.  For example, when protecting voice calls, Gold Lock automatically changes the keys multiple times for each call, a feature that makes it virtually impossible to zoom in on a specific set of keys and decrypt it. But despite the complex technology taking place in the background, the company’s software and voice products require no technical skills to use. The company claims that if you can speak on a cell phone or upload a file to a computer, you have all the skills you need.

Increased threat levels around the world have made secure voice and data communications a necessary part of doing business in both the public and private sectors.  Gold Lock’s products protect their users from having sensitive business and personal information intercepted and used against them.

To learn more about the contest and download the pre-recorded 10-minute file, visit https://www.gold-lock.com/app/en/HackerChallenge. To learn more about the military-grade encryption solutions offered by Gold Lock, visit https://www.gold-lock.com.

About the Company:Gold Lock is a leading international provider of comprehensive end-to-end data encryption solutions. The Gold Lock group of products is used daily by government, military, private and public organizations, as well as individuals seeking the highest level of digital and voice security. The company’s 30 highly trained digital security experts walk the cutting edge of the rapidly changing world of security threats and solutions.

Contact:Noam Copel, CEOGold Lock Tel Aviv, IsraelTel: +972 8935 2335Fax: +972 8935 2335http://www.gold-lock.com

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Gold Lock is proud to announce that Douglas Haskins, Channel Manager-North America, is scheduled to be interviewed by Federal News Radio AM1500 in Washington, DC, Monday 12/14/09 at 8:30am (eastern time).  Federal News Radio contacted Gold Lock to schedule the radio interview to discuss the Gold Lock Hacker Challenge: a $250,00o prize to anyone who can hack a 10 minute encrypted conversation.

Would be hackers are free to use any tools or technology at their disposal. This contest is open to anyone, anywhere, unless your participation is specifically prohibited by law.

Hackers have until 12:00 AM (GMT/UTC + 02:00 hours) on February 1st 2010 to provide us with the transcript. Read the contest rules for complete details and restrictions. Be sure to complete the entry form on that page before you start trying to grab the gold.

An Israeli mobile security firm that a month ago offered $100,000 in gold to anyone who could hack its voice encryption technology has upped the ante to $250,000. Gold Lock posted a sample of an encrypted voice conversation on its Website and is offering the golden reward to any hackers who can crack it and send the company a transcript of the call.

Gold Lock, which sells military-grade mobile devices and data and voice encryption tools, says the voice call file has been downloaded more than 1,000 times in the Gold Lock Hacker Challenge contest. But that’s nowhere near the number the vendor had expected, so it decided to make the contest more attractive with a bigger bounty.

“Since 2003, we have been telling everyone how our products provide unbreakable protection for their voice and data transmissions, but talk is cheap. So now we are putting our claims to the ultimate test by inviting anyone that thinks they have the skills to take us down,” said Noam Copel, CEO of Gold Lock, in a statement.

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By Kelly Jackson Higgins DarkReading Dec 07, 2009
An Israeli mobile security firm that a month ago offered $100,000 in gold to anyone who could hack its voice encryption technology has upped the ante to $250,000. Gold Lock posted a sample of an encrypted voice conversation on its Website and is offering the golden reward to any hackers who can crack it and send the company a transcript of the call.
Gold Lock, which sells military-grade mobile devices and data and voice encryption tools, says the voice call file has been downloaded more than 1,000 times in the Gold Lock Hacker Challenge contest. But that’s nowhere near the number the vendor had expected, so it decided to make the contest more attractive with a bigger bounty.
“Since 2003, we have been telling everyone how our products provide unbreakable protection for their voice and data transmissions, but talk is cheap. So now we are putting our claims to the ultimate test by inviting anyone that thinks they have the skills to take us down,” said Noam Copel, CEO of Gold Lock, in a statement.
Copel says he doesn’t expect to have to give away the gold, however. “I don’t think there is a chance at all that I’ll be giving away the gold. No individual, group or intelligence agency has the skills, technology or time needed to defeat our technology,” he said.
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If you’re still using a cellphone based on early digital standards, you better be careful what you say. The encryption technology used to prevent eavesdropping in GSM (Global System for Mobile communications), the world’s most widely used cellphone system, has more security holes than Swiss cheese, according to an expert who plans to poke a big hole of his own.

Karsten Nohl, chief research scientist with H4RDW4RE, a Sunnyvale, Calif.-based security research firm, is mounting what could be the most ambitious attempt yet to compromise the GSM phone system, which is used by over 3 billion people around the world. Others have cracked the A5/1 encryption technology used in GSM before, but their results have remained secret. However, Nohl, who earned a Ph.D. in computer science at the University of Virginia and is a member of Germany’s Chaos Computer Club (CCC), intends to go one big step further: By the end of the year, he plans to make the keys available to everyone on the Internet.

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Smartphone security business challenge and channel opportunity

Sales and support opportunities for encryption are likely to grow as smartphones use more business applications, such as SAP, and store more corporate data. As discussed earlier, the potential for antimalware sales and support is enormous when smartphones finally become subject to widespread attack.

While encryption vendors offer mobile-specific products on their own, they are also included as part of their overall corporate endpoint encryption suites. Check Point’s Svegby said PC encryption orders for, say 5,000 seats, often come with an additional 150 to 200 licenses for smartphone encryption.

Some vendors, such as Credant Technologies Inc. and Check Point offer only encryption products, others such as F-Secure Corp. and Kaspersky Lab Inc. offer only antimalware, and still others, such as Symantec and McAfee Inc., offer both encryption and antimalware. In terms of operating systems, most vendors support Windows Mobile and Symbian, and some support Palm OS and Blackberry as well. There have been reports that several vendors are working on iPhone antimalware, as well.

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Skype uses SSL which uses electronic certificates and 128 bit encryption (standard for credit card transactions online also) This level of encryption is NOT appropriate for even top secret level communications. How many times have credit card numbers been stolen online?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transport_Layer_Security

128-bit 2^128 2 multiplied by 2 128 times over. = 339,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 (give or take a couple trillion…).

Gold Lock Enterprise uses 4 different encryption methods. One of which is 16,384 Bit Authentication. That is 2 multiplied by 2, 16,384 times over (not just 128 times). This method IS appropriate for top secret level communications. Enterprise uses 16,384 Bit Authentication Elliptic Curve 384 Bits (RSA 7680 Bits Equivalent) AES 256 Bits Diffie Hellman 4096 Bits

AES – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Encryption_Standard Top Secret appropriate

RSA – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSA Top Secret appropriate

Diffie Hellman – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diffie-Hellman_key_exchange Top Secret appropriate

In addition to this technical “stuff” the facts remain that Skype provides a key to governments for lawful interception (which means all the security in the world in now a mute point) and  Skypes 128 bit encryption has been broken, and hackers now easily intercept their calls.

http://sigillu.wordpress.com/category/technologies/skype/

As you can see Enterprise has significantly higher encryption capabilities than Skype. Skype encrypts just enough to satisfy their customers. Gold Lock takes pride in having the best and highest encryption software on the market. Gold Lock Enterprise is a military grade encryption software. No military uses Skype to relay orders or pass top secret information.