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Plug-and-play hardware lacks even basic functional security for crucial bootrom.

Earlier this year, the US Department of Justice made a series of legal arguments as to why Facebook should be forced to help the government wiretap Facebook Messenger. Those arguments are still...

Lots of people are e-mailing me about this new result on the distribution of prime numbers. While interesting, it has nothing to do with cryptography. Cryptographers aren't interested in how to...

Quantum computing is a new way of computing -- one that could allow humankind to perform computations that are simply impossible using today's computing technologies. It allows for very fast...

'Exceptional access' is a really bad idea, says standards-setter, but one-off malware is cool The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) has joined the ranks of objectors to...

Replica war-winner now in Bletchley Park's historic Block H The UK National Museum of Computing will open its new Bombe gallery this weekend at Bletchley Park in Milton Keynes after a successful...

Telefónica and Huawei shoot freakin' lasers down existing optical networks for QKD Telefónica and Huawei have carried out a successful field trial of quantum cryptography on commercial optical networks.…

This is interesting: Creating these defenses is the goal of NIST's lightweight cryptography initiative, which aims to develop cryptographic algorithm standards that can work within the confines of...

The recent ROCA vulnerability (CVE-2017-15361) raises some important issues about the design of secure cryptographic software. The vulnerability is not in this case an obvious coding error such as...

Due to their computing power, quantum computers have the disruptive potential to break various currently used encryption algorithms. Infineon Technologies has successfully demonstrated the first...