Algorithms withstood three years of Defence hacking
Centrelink will release its $560,000 smart card identification protocol for free in an attempt to buy-back security systems based on the technology.
After RIM abandoned its hostile bid for Certicom, VeriSign announced it plans to buy the security company.
VeriSign said it plans to buy Certicom, just three days after Research In Motion's hostile bid for the security company unraveled.
The American National Institute of Standards and Technology has organised a contest to find a new cryptographic hash algorithm to replace SHA-2 (Secure Hash Algorithm - 2).
Fifteen-year-old Peter Schmidt-Nielsen spent only a month working on his submission, but he thinks he's come up with something "unusual and new." Never mind that he's up against some of the most famous cryptographers in the world.
New mathematical attack works against a broad range cryptographic functions.
Unless you're a dyed in the wool cryptographic geek you probably didn't know that there was a Crypto conference, or even a chain of worldwide crypto conferences that take place each year. Fortunately, for the most of us that aren't crypto geeks there are a handful of very highly skilled people who are; they can take the highly theoretical and complex mathematical proofs and arguments that make up most of modern cryptographic and cryptanalytic research and put it into plain language.
