Ars Technica

The NSA’s work to make crypto worse and better

The mission of the US National Institute of Standards and Technology, NIST, is to create technical and measurement standards to make US manufacturing and industry more competitive. In 1987, the ...
ZDNet

DES encryption leaves SIM cards vulnerable to exploitation

Karsten Nohl, the founder of Berlin's Security Research Labs, has announced an exploit for SIM cards using the outdated 56-bit DES algorithm for its signature verification. The security researcher ...
TechRepublic

Analysis and Review of Encryption and Decryption for Secure Communication

Cryptography is the practice and study of techniques for secure communication in the presence of third parties (called adversaries). More generally, it is about constructing and analyzing protocols ...
Ars Technica

Report: NSA paid RSA to make flawed crypto algorithm the default

Security company RSA was paid $10 million to use the flawed Dual_EC_DRBG pseudorandom number generating algorithm as the default algorithm in its BSafe crypto library, according to sources speaking to ...