The National Institute of Standards and Technology is proposing that the Data Encryption Standard, a popular encryption algorithm, lose its certification for use in software products sold to the ...

Karsten Nohl, the founder of Berlin's Security Research Labs, has announced an exploit for SIM cards using the outdated 56-bit DES algorithm for its signature verification.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

It’s the computational magic for scrambling data to keep it secret, and in the U.S., the best-known cryptographic algorithms go by names such as Triple-DES and AES. But in other countries, such as ...

Cryptography is the fundamental technology used to protect information in today’s information economy. Not coincidently, it is also responsible for the commercialization of the Internet. Netscape was ...