Researchers from Fujitsu Laboratories, Japan’s National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT) and Kyushu University have set a new cryptanalysis world record by cracking a ...

Introduction: A revolutionary cipher -- Cryptology before 1500: a bit of magic -- The black chambers: 1500-1776 -- Crypto goes to war: the American Revolution -- Crypto goes to war: the American Civil ...

The arena of creating secure environments in the hardware and software industries is somewhat shrouded in mystery and misunderstanding. Certainly, some types of ciphers are relatively straightforward ...

Research into the cryptanalysis of RSA and modular equations has seen significant evolution in recent years. The RSA cryptosystem, long revered for its robust security based on the computational ...

The latest Snowden document is the US intelligence "black budget." There's a lot of information in the few pages the Washington Post decided to publish, including an introduction by Director of ...

Zhuang Huanguo and his group of researchers at the Key Laboratory of Aerospace Information Security and Trusted Computing developed the new cryptosystem over a decade, according to a release by ...

At the Crypto 2004 conference in Santa Barbara, Calif., this week, researchers announced several weaknesses in common hash functions. These results, while mathematically significant, aren’t cause for ...

Fort Huachuca, Az. -The business of solving codes and ciphers had been an active field in the U.S. government since World War I when Ralph Van Deman realized he needed a cipher bureau as part of his ...

The U.S. intelligence community is reportedly using a fifth of its $52.6 billion annual budget to fund cryptography-related programs and operations. Some of those funds are invested in finding ...