TrueCrypt Audit Team Creates Technical Advisory Board

As the TrueCrypt audit chugs along toward a deterministic, clean build of the open-source encryption software and a palatable license, the organizers have brought prominent security and legal experts aboard as a technical advisory team. The experts will not only provide guidance on the current...

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...

UK Cryptographers Call For Publication of Deliberately Weakened Protocols, Products

A group of cryptographers in the UK has published a letter that calls on authorities in that country and the United States to conduct an investigation to determine which security products, protocols and standards have been deliberately weakened by the countries’ intelligence services. The letter,...

Experts Urge ECC crytpo over RSA algorithm

LAS VEGAS – Cryptographic breakthroughs have accelerated in the past six months in areas such as discrete logarithm computations that lead experts to believe that breaking the stalwart RSA algorithm may be in the not-too-distant future. A team of crypto experts today at Black Hat USA 2013 present...

Cryptographers Aim to Find New Password Hashing Algorithm

Passwords are the keys to our online identities, and as a result, they’re also near the top of the target list for attackers. There have been countless breaches in the last few years in which unencrypted passwords have been stolen from a database and leaked online, and security experts often shak...

[SECURITY] Fedora 18 Update: mcrypt-2.6.8-10.fc18

MCrypt is a replacement for the old crypt package and crypt1 command, with extensions. It allows developers to use a wide range of encryption functions, without making drastic changes to their code. It allows users to encrypt files or data streams without having to be cryptographers...

Cryptographers : Satellite phones vulnerable to eavesdropping

Cryptographers : Satellite phones vulnerable to eavesdropping Researchers at a German university claim to have cracked the algorithm that secures satellite phone transmissions. They have broken the encryption of the two main standards used to protect calls from satellite phones, giving them the...

RSA 2010: Cryptographers Discuss Wisdom of 'Foolishness'

At the RSA conference in San Francisco, a panel of leading cryptographers reveal some of the lessons they have learned while making seemingly imprudent decisions. By going against the grain, new objectives can be made and boundaries overcome...

RSA 2010: Experts Expect Several Ciphers to Be Cracked Soon

Cryptographers are expecting several of the major cryptographic systems in use today to be broken in the near future. In the Cryptographers Panel session at the RSA Conference Tuesday, Adi Shamir said that he is working with a team of researchers who have put together a paper that describes an...

Hackers Decrypt GSM, Radio Frequency Divide

Cryptographers have moved closer to their goal of eavesdropping on cellphone conversations after cracking the secret code used to prevent the interception of radio signals as they travel between handsets and mobile operators’ base stations. Read the full article. The Register...

New Attack Against AES-256 a 'Huge Result'

A group of cryptographers has devised a new attack against AES, the de facto standard encryption algorithm, that enables them to recover an encryption key in far less time than had been possible before. The attack can recover an AES-256 key in a small enough amount of time to make the method...

Crypto flaws becoming a killer for Web applications

One of the few things that most people in the security community seem to agree on is that there is a dire need for better security around Web applications. That need begins with the lack of security training for most Web developers and extends through the inconsistent use of Web-application...