Security News

NIST Issues Call for "Lightweight Cryptography" Algorithms
2018-05-02 11:40

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...

Why cryptography is much harder than software engineers think
2017-12-19 12:15

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...

First post-quantum cryptography on a contactless security chip (Help Net Security)
2017-05-30 15:10

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...

NIST is Continuing to Work on Post-Quantum-Computing Cryptography Standards (Schneier on Security)
2016-12-23 12:39

NIST is accepting proposals for public-key algorithms immune to quantum computing techniques. Details here. Deadline is the end of November 2017. I applaud NIST for taking the lead on this, and...

Whistleblower Investigative Report on NSA Suite B Cryptography (Schneier on Security)
2016-11-09 18:00

The NSA has been abandoning secret and proprietary cryptographic algorithms in favor of commercial public algorithms, generally known as "Suite B." In 2010, an NSA employee filed some sort of...

Cryptography vs. bigotry: the debate Australia needs to have (The Register)
2016-07-24 23:46

Google's Post-Quantum Cryptography (Schneier on Security)
2016-07-12 17:53

News has been bubbling about an announcement by Google that it's starting to experiment with public-key cryptography that's resistant to cryptanalysis by a quantum computer. Specifically, it's...

Google Testing Post-Quantum Cryptography in Chrome (Threatpost)
2016-07-08 18:00

Google has announced its first venture into post-quantum cryptography with the use of a post-quantum key-exchange algorithm in the Canary test build of the Chrome browser.

Google is experimenting with post-quantum cryptography (ZDNet)
2016-07-07 20:14

CIA Director John Brennan Pretends Foreign Cryptography Doesn't Exist (Schneier on Security)
2016-06-20 17:24

Last week, CIA director John Brennan told a Senate committee that there wasn't any strong cryptography outside of the US. CIA director John Brennan told US senators they shouldn't worry about...