Karsten Nohl, the founder of Berlin's Security Research Labs, has announced an exploit for SIM cards using the outdated 56-bit DES algorithm for its signature verification. The security researcher ...
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Cryptography is the fundamental technology used to protect information in today’s information economy. Not coincidently, it is also responsible for the commercialization of the Internet. Netscape was ...
The core advantage of quantum computing — the ability to compute for many possible outcomes at the same time and therefore crunch data much more quickly than classical computers — also creates a ...
The federal government has agreed to allow the export of the strongest computer encryption systems on the market, paving the way for consumers to have the sort of code-scrambling capability the ...