Security News

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...

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.

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...

Cryptography Is Harder Than It Looks (Schneier on Security)
2016-03-24 11:37

Writing a magazine column is always an exercise in time travel. I'm writing these words in early December. You're reading them in February. This means anything that's news as I write this will be...

Financial Cryptography 2016 (Schneier on Security)
2016-03-15 17:37

Ross Anderson liveblogged this year's Financial Cryptography conference....