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Thirty years on, cryptography still too hard to use?
News US government controls held back cryptography in the past, but today, it's usability that blocks adoption, a panel of experts said on Thursday. At an event in Mountain View, California, celebrating 30 years of public key cryptography, several top...
[October 30, 2006, 16:10]
RSA: Cryptography for bookworms
Blog Topping the list of interest today, it says, is cryptography. Chey Cobb's Cryptography for Dummies is one of the latest in the ever-popular Dummies series, and it's been one of the most sought after books at Wiley's stand.
[October 24, 2007, 17:29]
Sun donates cryptography tech to OpenSSL project
News Sun Microsystems has donated new cryptography technology to an open-source project at the heart of many secure transactions on the Internet. Elliptic curve cryptography brings it forward into the mathematics of the 19th century," he said.
[September 20, 2002, 14:32]
Toshiba shows practical quantum cryptography
News Toshiba Research Europe demonstrated last week what it claims is the world's first reliable automated quantum cryptography system and run it continuously for over a week. The system, which relies on single photons to transmit an untappable key over...
[December 13, 2004, 17:15]
Introduction to Public Key Cryptography
White Papers The solution to problems of identification, authentication, and privacy in computer-based systems lies in the field of cryptography. Because of the non-physical nature of the medium, traditional methods of physically marking the media with a seal...
[August 14, 2003, 0:00]
Cryptography giants work towards common standard
News Competing cryptography vendors came together Wednesday to discuss ways of interoperating the different digital signature technologies across Europe. The parties involved in the Trust Infrastructure for Europe (TIE) project will work on developing...
[October 20, 1999, 16:19]
Comparing Elliptic Curve Cryptography and RSA on 8-Bit CPUs
White Papers Strong public-key cryptography is often considered to be too computationally expensive for small devices if not accelerated by cryptographic hardware. The authors revisited this statement and implemented elliptic curve point multiplication for 160...
[September 27, 2005, 3:00]
Toshiba shows practical quantum cryptography
Talkback Because it 's not easy to understand what Quantum Cryptography is, we should be careful of QC-scam in coming future.
[December 13, 2004, 18:34]
Quantum cryptography becoming mainstream
News Various security experts have stated, however, that the strength of today's cryptography is the least of the security world's worries. There's absolutely no value in taking the strongest link and making it even stronger," Bruce Schneier, chief...
[February 7, 2005, 8:35]
Card Security and Cryptography
White Papers One of the key benefits of smart cards is the ability for some cards to support on board cryptography. For more information on cryptography please read "Applied Cryptography" by Bruce Schneier. By doing the actual cryptography on the card, the keys...
[August 14, 2003, 0:00]
Elliptic Curve PKI: An Exploration of the Benefits and Challenges of a PKI Based on Elliptic Curve Cryptography
White Papers Public-key cryptography has achieved enormous success in protecting users from identity theft resulting from transactions on the Web, e-mail correspondence and VPN sessions. This paper gives a brief introduction to elliptic curve cryptography...
[May 14, 2009, 1:17]
GridCrypt: High Performance Symmetric Key Cryptography Using Enterprise Grids
White Papers Today's cryptanalysis on symmetric key cryptography is encouraging the use of larger key sizes and complex algorithms to achieve an unbreakable state. This has promoted many researchers to develop high-performance symmetric key cryptography schemes...
[October 22, 2008, 1:01]
An Introduction to Cryptography
White Papers Cryptography is the stuff of spy novels and action comics. You can use cryptography. Kids once saved up Ovaltine labels and sent away for Captain Midnight's Secret Decoder Ring. Almost everyone has seen a television show or movie involving a...
[March 3, 2009, 1:33]
Energy Analysis of Public-Key Cryptography for Wireless Sensor Networks
White Papers In this paper, the energy cost of authentication and key exchange are quantified based on public-key cryptography on an 8-bit microcontroller platform. The paper presents a comparison of two public-key algorithms, RSA and Elliptic Curve...
[August 2, 2005, 6:00]
Malicious Cryptography: Exposing Cryptovirology
Member Review Malicious Cryptography outlines how a virus could contain and use a cryptographic public key, and speculates on the kind of attacks that might use this method.
[August 23, 2005, 16:26]
Cryptography takes a quantum leap
News It uses a combination of quantum cryptography and traditional cryptography to provide a virtual private network (VPN), running over fibre-optic cable, that's designed to be completely secure against all eavesdroppers.
[November 7, 2003, 9:00]
Malicious Cryptography: Exposing Cryptovirology review
Reviews Malicious Cryptography is more or less the result. Parts of the book are reminiscent of many mid-1990s discussions about cryptography: people like the physicist Timothy May used to speculate about how to use it to guarantee anonymity or run a crime...
[August 23, 2005, 16:35]
Researchers cut costs of quantum cryptography
News Researchers from the US National Institute of Standards and Technology claim to have discovered a technique that will lower the costs of quantum cryptography. One of the major costs in quantum cryptography is for photon measurement detectors, which...
[June 3, 2008, 15:58]
Using Public Key Cryptography in Mobile Phones
White Papers Public key cryptography is a primary concept in implementing wireless device security. As mobile networks expand their bandwidth, mobile phones, as with any other Internet device, become substantially exposed to Internet security vulnerabilities.
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