Researchers from Fujitsu Laboratories, Japan’s National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT) and Kyushu University have set a new cryptanalysis world record by cracking a ...

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Code-based cryptography is a promising branch of post-quantum cryptography that exploits the inherent complexity of decoding linear error-correcting codes. Traditional schemes, such as the McEliece ...

At the Crypto 2004 conference in Santa Barbara, Calif., this week, researchers announced several weaknesses in common hash functions. These results, while mathematically significant, aren’t cause for ...

Quantum cryptography has emerged as a critical field in the era of quantum computing, offering novel approaches to secure communication against potential quantum-enabled adversaries. At its core, the ...

The latest Snowden document is the US intelligence "black budget." There's a lot of information in the few pages the Washington Post decided to publish, including an introduction by Director of ...

The organizers of the TrueCrypt audit expect the cryptanalysis of the open source encryption software to begin shortly; phase two will be handled by NCC Group’s Cryptography Services practice. The ...

CipherShed and VeraCrypt developers stand ready to step in for TrueCrypt now that the cryptanalysis phase of the audit is complete and no backdoors were discovered. Both open source projects sprung ...

Be afraid, friends, for science has given us a new way in which to circumvent some of the strongest encryption algorithms used to protect our data -- and no, it's not some super secret government ...