NIST Seeking Public Comment on SHA-3 Crypto Algorithm

The National Institute of Standards and Technology NIST is inviting the public to analyze and comment on its Secure Hash Algorithm-3 SHA-3, the latest iteration of cryptographic hash functions endorsed and published by the U.S. standards agency in order to protect the integrity of electronic...

Better Security, 'Progressive Encryption' in Silent Text 2.0

Silent Circle has released a new version of its private text messaging and secure file transfer service for Android and iOS mobile devices. Silent Text 2.0 includes a number of security and user-interface upgrades. The company claims this version eliminates a keying delay issue that existed in...

Fedora Update for openssl FEDORA-2014-0474

Check for the Version of openssl OpenVAS Vulnerability Test Fedora Update for openssl FEDORA-2014-0474 Authors: System Generated Check Copyright: Copyright C 2014 Greenbone Networks GmbH, http://www.greenbone.net This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the...

NSA Crypto Questions Resemble a 'Hall of Mirrors'

There’s been no shortage of discussion and debate in recent week about the possibility that the NSA has intentionally weakened some cryptographic algorithms and cipher suites in order to give it an advantage in its intelligence-gathering operations. If you subscribe to the worst-case scenario lin...

Experts Worry About Long-Term Implications of NSA Revelations

With all of the disturbing revelations that have come to light in the last few weeks regarding the NSA’s collection methods and its efforts to weaken cryptographic protocols and security products, experts say that perhaps the most worrisome result of all of this is that no one knows who or what...

[SECURITY] Fedora 13 Update: openssl-1.0.0d-1.fc13

The OpenSSL toolkit provides support for secure communications between machines. OpenSSL includes a certificate management tool and shared libraries which provide various cryptographic algorithms and protocols...

TLS Renegotiation (CVE-2009-3555)

Transport Layer Security TLS and Secure Sockets Layer SSL are cryptographic protocols that provide security for communications over networks. A spoofing vulnerability exists in multiple implementations of these protocols. The vulnerability is due to the flaw in the renegotiation aspect of the TLS...