Researchers from Fujitsu Laboratories, Japan’s National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT) and Kyushu University have set a new cryptanalysis world record by cracking a ...
At the Crypto 2004 conference in Santa Barbara, Calif., this week, researchers announced several weaknesses in common hash functions. These results, while mathematically significant, aren’t cause for ...
Introduction: A revolutionary cipher -- Cryptology before 1500: a bit of magic -- The black chambers: 1500-1776 -- Crypto goes to war: the American Revolution -- Crypto goes to war: the American Civil ...
Imagine a world where the most widely-used cryptographic methods turn out to be broken: quantum computers allow encrypted Internet data transactions to become readable by anyone who happened to be ...
The arena of creating secure environments in the hardware and software industries is somewhat shrouded in mystery and misunderstanding. Certainly, some types of ciphers are relatively straightforward ...
The U.S. intelligence community is reportedly using a fifth of its $52.6 billion annual budget to fund cryptography-related programs and operations. Some of those funds are invested in finding ...
“Governments worry about the capabilities of state-backed hackers and the defense industry fears China’s growing technological prowess," GlobalData's Robert Penman said. The National Institute of ...