CVE-2026-23060

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: crypto: authencesn - reject too-short AAD assoclen8 to match ESP/ESN spec authencesn assumes an ESP/ESN-formatted AAD. When assoclen is shorter than the minimum expected length, cryptoauthencesndecrypt can advance past the end of...

Avoid The Randomness From The Sky

This is a plea for cryptography specification authors. If your protocol uses randomness, please make it a deterministic function that takes a fixed-size string of random bytes , and publish known-answer tests for it. This whole issue could really be just the paragraph above, but I feel like I nee...

Mozilla Releases Preview Builds of Firefox with Content Security Policy

Mozilla has released a preview build of Firefox that includes its new Content Security Policy specification, a framework that’s designed to enable site owners to protect against common Web-based attacks. The CSP specification is Mozilla’s effort to provide Web site operators with a simpler way to...