EDN

Cryptography in Software or Hardware – It Depends on the Need

Cryptographic algorithms are high-performance, secure engines that require considerable space in a design. When countermeasures are added to thwart security attacks, the space and memory requirements ...
C4ISRNET

Robust cryptographic policies will help save military software systems

Modern software systems rely on patching and updates as flaws are found. Famed venture capitalist Marc Andreessen coined the phrase, “Software is eating the world” in a Wall Street Journal op-ed back ...
EDN

Cryptography in Software or Hardware

Abstract: As the length of software keys increases to accommodate evolving needs for greater security, so the marketplace demands a wider variety of cryptographic implementations. With recent ...
Phys.org

Cryptographic attack highlights the importance of bug-free software

A padlocked icon in a web-browser or a URL starting with https provides communication security over the Internet. The icon or URL indicates OpenSSL, a cryptography toolkit implementing the SSL ...
Dark Reading

Cracking Weak Cryptography Before Quantum Computing Does

BLACK HAT EUROPE 2023 – London – Researchers from Microsoft, its GitHub subsidiary, and Spain-based Banco Santander here today released a set of open source tools that identify and pinpoint weak ...
Digital Trends

Google makes cryptography more secure with open-sourced Project Wycheproof

Google security engineers Daniel Bleichenbacher and Thai Duong announced the launch of Project Wycheproof on Monday, a set of security tests that look for known weaknesses and check for expected ...
Business Insider

Synopsys Accelerates FIPS 140-2 Certification with NIST-Validated Cryptography IP Software Library

DesignWare Cryptography Software Library includes a suite of widely used encryption and certificate processing functions required for embedded applications Secure functions that passed validation ...
Business Wire

QuSecure™ Launches QuProtect™ Post-Quantum Cryptography Cybersecurity Software in AWS Marketplace

SAN MATEO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--QuSecure™, Inc., a leader in post-quantum cryptography (PQC), today announced the availability of its cutting-edge cybersecurity software QuProtect™ in AWS ...
Reason

When Encryption Was a Crime: The 1990s Battle for Free Speech in Software

This is the third installment in Reason's four-part documentary series titled "Cypherpunks Write Code." Watch the complete series here. In 1977, a team of cryptographers at MIT made an astonishing ...
SiliconANGLE

Elcomsoft’s Forensic Decryption Software Moves the Needle for Practical Cryptography

Cryptography is the go-to defense for cybersecurity, it’s essentially the strongbox of the computing era—and just like a strongbox it’s not designed to keep the contents perfectly safe from all ...
The Conversation

If you seek to ‘switch off’ encryption, you may as well switch off the whole internet

We don’t need any more internet off-switches, thanks. deadhorse, CC BY-NC Prime Minister David Cameron has stated that the UK government will look at “switching ...