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Signal has announced that it upgraded its end-to-end communication protocol to use quantum-resistant encryption keys to protect users from future attacks. For communication apps, like Signal, that use end-to-end encryption to protect communication between two parties, the concern is that encrypted communications can be intercepted and deciphered to expose the contents of the communication.
Encrypted messaging app Signal has announced an update to the Signal Protocol to add support for quantum resistance by upgrading the Extended Triple Diffie-Hellman (X3DH) specification to...
Digital information exchange can be safer, cheaper and more environmentally friendly with the help of a new type of random number generator for encryption developed at Linköping University. Experimental setup of the quantum random number generator.
Anonymous September 6, 2023 7:49 AM. "I can't understand why anyone thinks these technologies are a good idea." Maybe because the people are fed up with the current system that they are willing to undergo the risk rather than to submit to the corrupted system? Maybe they perceive that risk smaller than the risks they have to face from the corrupted system?
In this Help Net Security video, Kayne McGladrey, IEEE Senior Member and Field CISO at Hyperproof, discusses end-to-end encryption (E2EE). E2EE ensures that only two parties – a sender and a...
Meta has once again reaffirmed its plans to roll out support for end-to-end encryption by default for one-to-one friends and family chats on Messenger by the end of the year. "Like many messaging services, Messenger and Instagram DMs were originally designed to function via servers," Timothy Buck, product manager for Messenger, said.
The Chocolate Factory is doing so because some day, many very bright people believe, quantum computers will be able to break at least some legacy encryption schemes. Google in 2019 said it had conducted an experiment that demonstrated quantum supremacy - the idea that a quantum computer could outperform a classical one.
Google has announced plans to add support for quantum-resistant encryption algorithms in its Chrome browser, starting with version 116. "Chrome will begin supporting X25519Kyber768 for establishing symmetric secrets in TLS, starting in Chrome 116, and available behind a flag in Chrome 115," Devon O'Brien said in a post published Thursday.
A widely used Chinese language input app for Windows and Android has been found vulnerable to serious security flaws that could allow a malicious interloper to decipher the text typed by users. The findings from the University of Toronto's Citizen Lab, which carried out an analysis of the encryption mechanism used in Tencent's Sogou Input Method, an app that has over 455 million monthly active users across Windows, Android, and iOS. The vulnerabilities are rooted in EncryptWall, the service's custom encryption system, allowing network eavesdroppers to extract the textual content and access sensitive data.
A variety of Intel Core processors and the devices using them are vulnerable to "Downfall", a new class of attacks made possible by CVE-2022-40982, which enables attackers to access and steal sensitive data such as passwords, encryption keys, and private data from other users on the same personal or cloud computer. " is caused by memory optimization features in Intel processors that unintentionally reveal internal hardware registers to software.