For the past 2 months this has been bugging the hell out me! Every 5 minutes or so, this window appears out of nowhere. Its about 4″ x 5″.

Top left is the Network logo (a grayish marble in a box). Across the top in boldface it reads: WebDAV File System Authentication. Below this in regular face it reads: Enter your user name and password to access the server at the URL “http://idisk.mac.com/(myname)/” in the realm “idisk.mac.com.”
Your name and password will be sent securely.
Below this is:
Name (Over a white box with my name printed in it.)
Password (Over a white box with dot representing my password)
Below this is a check box next to: Remember this password in my Keychain
And finally, two oval boxes: Cancel and OK

If I click OK, the window disappears, and a couple seconds later, another smaller window appears with same logo, that reads: The user name or password is not valid. Please try again. And there is an oval box: OK. I click OK, and the original box comes back.

If I click Cancel, the window disappears for a couple seconds later, then comes back. If I click Cancel a second time, it dissappears for a about 5 minutes. Then it comes back, and the whole starts again. I contact the macHelp folks, who gave me very assistance since my warranty is expired. They walk me through resetting my Keychain password. The first time I tried this, the problem seems to go away, but was back in identical fashion a couple days later. I’ve doing this again, but now appears to have no effect. Mac says they can fix it, and its an easy fix, but I have to bring it in–along with my checkbook, of course.

Can anyone help me? I’m not the most computer literate person on the planet, but will try anything reasonable.

Thanks!

1)You are the director of a top secret government espionage agency. Every month you securely transmit a new set of one time pad values to each of the spies you have placed in various countries. Each of these values is used to encrypt a single message back to headquarters and then destroyed. You realize that last month the same pad was accidentally sent to every spy. Does this ruin the security of your system? Under what circumstances? What if one spy received the same pad two months in a row instead? Explain your answers. [Note: “pad” is the “key”]
2)A 3 bit long message was encrypted using one-time pad to yield a cipher-text “110” Assuming the message space consists of all 3 bit long messages, what is the probability that the corresponding plain-text was “101”? Explain your answer.

I want to create a program that among other things.. will need to send a email containing sensitive info. I will most likely will be using gnupg for encryption, but want the email to be sent securely (through ssl/tls). I want the program to be as small as possible, so if i could do this with a batch script(or something like that) that would be ideal! However if not, is there a very small and very secure client that i could use?

When surfing online anonymously, through the TOR network for instance, is it that *I* am anonymous and not the information being sent, or is the information anonymous and invisible as well? I’m just wondering if I get set up that way if I could send sensitive information online securely?

Thanks.

Dear AT&T Yahoo! Customer:

We noticed that you are accessing email using non-secure settings in your email software.

We would like to ensure that your AT&T Yahoo! Member ID, password, and email messages are transmitted securely between your mail software (such as Outlook or Outlook Express) and the AT&T Yahoo! Mail servers. In order to meet this need, please enable SSL via the instructions that are available on the Help site.

Since multiple email notifications have already been sent out about this, we request that you please make the necessary changes immediately. Remember, you need to make these changes if you want to continue to send/receive email using a mail client.

Dear AT&T Yahoo! Customer:

We noticed that you are accessing email using non-secure settings in your email software.

We would like to ensure that your AT&T Yahoo! Member ID, password, and email messages are transmitted securely between your mail software (such as Outlook or Outlook Express) and the AT&T Yahoo! Mail servers. In order to meet this need, please enable SSL via the instructions that are available on the Help site.

Since multiple email notifications have already been sent out about this, we request that you please make the necessary changes immediately. Remember, you need to make these changes if you want to continue to send/receive email using a mail client.

Thank you for your cooperation,

When accessing your yahoo e-mail account, are messages that you view encrypted when sent? More precisely, if you are viewing your messages on a public / government network that logs packets are the messages sent to you in plain text…. or does yahoo encrypt the messages? If this is not so is there a way to set up yahoo to encrypt the packets it sends, or any third-party software that you can use in conjunction with yahoo to encrypt messages sent / received? This would be a big help since I would like to make sure that no one else (system admins and what not) can view my messages when I send or receive them. Thanks.

For each of the following statements, state whether it is True,
False or Indeterminate (i.e. there isn’t sufficient information
to tell whether it is True or False).
(1)
SSL uses symmetric cryptography to send a key securely
over the internet.
(2)
SSL is very secure and efficient.
(3)
SSL sometimes uses the same symmetric key more than
once.
(4)
SSL is efficient because it uses asymmetric key
cryptography.
(5)
SSL requires the computers between which data is
transferred to know each other’s private keys.

I am so tired of receiving the following message. As far as I know, I followed the instructions. I also went onto “ask mike” for suggestions and followed them. I still get this message. How do I accomplish this requirement?
FYI: My mail software is Outlook Express 6

Dear AT&T Yahoo! Customer:
We noticed that you are accessing email using non-secure settings in your email software. We would like to ensure that your AT&T Yahoo! Member ID, password, and email messages are transmitted securely between your mail software (such as Outlook or Outlook Express) and the AT&T Yahoo! Mail servers. In order to meet this need, please enable SSL via the instructions that are available on the Help site.

Since multiple email notifications have already been sent out about this, we request that you please make the necessary changes immediately. Remember, you need to make these changes if you want to continue to send/receive email using a mail client

I am part of a 2-man business. We work 100 miles apart, normally talking on IM and sending email. We want to use Outlook or similar for our contact management. We will often need to individually update the same customer contact files and we both will need access to those files all day. Outlook tells me that I can share files but with no security or encryption. How do I get secure sharing?
I don’t mind using another program instead of Outlook, if it will do the job.