Moore's Law, Latent Demand, and the Slowing of Cloud Computing

A growing chorus of organizations are slowing their cloud computing and migration. William Malik, Trend Micro’s VP of Infrastructure Strategies, discusses why this is happening, and what it will mean for organizations’ long-term plans...

Security and Cheap Complexity

Ive been saying that complexity is the worst enemy of security for a long time now. Heres me in 1999. And its been true for a long time. In 2018, Thomas Dullien of Googles Project Zero talked about "cheap complexity." Andrew Appel summarizes: The anomaly of cheap complexity. For most of human...

RSA-240 Factored

This just in: We are pleased to announce the factorization of RSA-240, from RSA's challenge list, and the computation of a discrete logarithm of the same size 795 bits: RSA-240 = 12462036678171878406583504460810659043482037465167880575481878888328...

Practical SHA-1 Collision Attack Months Away

When Bruce Schneier made his oft-cited and mathematically sound projections about the life expectancy of the SHA-1 cryptographic algorithm, he didn’t think he was being conservative. “I thought I was being accurate given the information I had at the time,” Schneier said on Thursday. Schneier in...