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RSA releases proprietary security algorithm
News Security firm RSA publicly released its encryption algorithm Wednesday, allowing any company to freely develop solutions based on its prevalent technology. The algorithm is used by both Netscape Communicator and Microsoft Internet Explorer to...
[September 6, 2000, 16:36]
China battles rejection of wireless encryption algorithm
News The Standardization Administration of China, a group promoting China's wireless encryption standard, accused the US-based engineering group IEEE of conspiracy and unethical behavior on Monday, according to reports by the Xinhua News Agency, China...
[May 30, 2006, 16:50]
News Burst: GSM security cracked
News Two Israeli researchers have penetrated the security guarding GSM digital phones with the discovery of what they describe as a flawed algorithm. According to a report in Wired, Alex Biryukov and Adi Shamir are this week to publish a paper detailing...
[December 7, 1999, 9:35]
RSA namesakes win Turing honours
News By an impressive coincidence, the inventors of the RSA algorithm -- one of the cornerstones of cryptography -- were awarded the Turing Award for computing on Monday; the day the annual IT security conference bearing their initials opened in San...
[April 15, 2003, 10:22]
US News Burst: RSA proposes new crypto standard
News RSA Data Security delivered to the U.S.government Wednesday a proposal for replacing the data-scrambling algorithm used in existing Data Encryption Standard (DES) encryption, now more than 20 years old, with a new algorithm designed by MIT...
[April 16, 1998, 7:00]
RSA sues Novell for patent violation
News The Californian, subsidiary of Security Dynamics Technologies Inc.is best known for its namesake public key algorithm, which is used in the encryption mechanisms of most browsers and is considered a key to digital certificate technology.
[April 12, 1999, 8:03]
SHA-1: Your questions answered
News Last year was a bad year for the Secure Hashing Algorithm. Among the results was a successful attack against the first version of the SHA algorithm, SHA-0. A key technology used in digitally signing documents and programs, the Secure Hash Algorithm...
[March 3, 2005, 8:50]
JPEG committee refutes patent claim
News The committee that develops the JPEG image compression standard have refuted a claim by a US company to own a patent that gives it exclusive rights to the algorithm underlying JPEG. In a posting on the JPEG site, committee member Richard Clarke...
[July 22, 2002, 10:47]
RSA looks to the everyday for security
News RSA Security is expected on Tuesday to announce a new user authentication method designed to replace traditional security tokens with mobile phones, PDAs and other devices loaded with RSA's SecurID algorithm.
[February 14, 2006, 8:00]
UK company offers crypto email for Win2K
News Reflex MailSafe applies a Triple-DES 168-bit algorithm to S/MIME 3 email communications and plugs neatly into Microsoft Outlook Express on Windows9X, NT and 2000 platforms. It employs the Diffie-Hellman public-key algorithm along with Digital...
[January 7, 2000, 12:06]
Israel and Australia lay claim to latest Google genius
News The 26-year-old doctoral student, Ori Allon, has developed a new search algorithm that will make the responses to searches more relevant and display more detail of a search, according to reports in the Sydney Morning Herald, and in the Israel...
[April 10, 2006, 16:50]
Hacking the 'crackers': Key Internet security issue solved
News The algorithm was named for its creators: Victor Shoup, of IBM's Zurich Research Laboratory, and Ronald Cramer, of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology. IBM plans to give away the algorithm details -- built upon the original Diffie-Hellman...
[August 25, 1998, 13:45]
Netscape security flaw revealed
News Reliable Software Technologies, a Sterling, Virginia, software-security company, said Tuesday that two RST engineers needed just eight hours to duplicate the mathematical algorithm Netscape Mail uses to scramble users' passwords.
[December 15, 1999, 14:06]
1024-bit encryption claims a first...
News A password, selected by the user, is combined with an algorithm to encrypt users' private key before it is stored on the Hushmail server. The only thing that will decrypt the key, according to the company, is the user's password, combined with the...
[May 28, 1999, 15:21]
A Year Ago: 1024-bit encryption claims a first...
News A password, selected by the user, is combined with an algorithm to encrypt users' private key before it is stored on the Hushmail server. The only thing that will decrypt the key, according to the company, is the user's password, combined with the...
[May 30, 2000, 7:01]
Network Associates buys PGP
News PGP started as a freeware product built in the basement of company founder Phil Zimmerman, who posted his original algorithm on Internet bulletin boards and incurred the wrath of the U.S. McAfee, ironically, posted the PGP algorithm on its bulletin...
[December 2, 1997, 10:48]
Hashing standard cracked
News An encryption standard widely used in digitally signing documents and programs has a flaw in it that could allow for the creation of forgeries, sources said on Wednesday.In a three-page research note seen by ZDNet UK sister site CNET News.com...
[February 17, 2005, 8:40]
Oyster cracked in public, researcher claims
News The exploit code, entitled 'Crapto-1', attempts to exploit NXP's proprietary Crypto1 algorithm. The exploit code builds on work by Dutch researchers from Radboud University in Nijmegen, who published a mathematical explanation of the algorithm and...
[October 27, 2008, 16:15]
Fizzer virus secrets revealed
News The IRC/Unity group discovered the algorithm that determines what that name should be. This weekend, the IRC/Unity group discovered that access to computers infected by the Fizzer worm is regulated by a three-letter nickname, which is generated by...
[May 20, 2003, 11:31]
Crypto experts hail Advanced Encryption Standard
News I would like to say that after all this time that people bashed the government, it's nice that they did something right for once," said Adi Shamir, a professor in the applied mathematics department of Israel's Weizmann Institute of Science and the...
[April 11, 2001, 11:32]
