NIST Calls for Submissions to Secure Data Against Quantum Computing

For a layman, it may be difficult to fathom how a standards body could be playing catch-up to a threat that could be at least a decade away. But that’s the position NIST finds itself in with the risk that quantum computers pose to existing cryptographic algorithms. Working, practical quantum...

openSUSE Security Update : openssl (openSUSE-SU-2012:0474-1)

Changes in openssl : - S/MIME verification may erroneously fail - Free headers after use in error message - Symmetric crypto errors in PKCS7decrypt %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were extracted from openSUSE Security...

SuSE 11.1 Security Update : OpenSSL (SAT Patch Number 6054)

The following security issues have been fixed : - Specially crafted MIME headers could cause openssl's ans1 parser to dereference a NULL pointer leading to a Denial of Service CVE-2006-7250 or fail verfication. CVE-2012-1165 - The implementation of Cryptographic Message Syntax CMS and PKCS 7 in...