ZDNet

DES encryption leaves SIM cards vulnerable to exploitation

Karsten Nohl, the founder of Berlin's Security Research Labs, has announced an exploit for SIM cards using the outdated 56-bit DES algorithm for its signature verification. The security researcher ...
Simon Fraser University

Data Encryption Algorithms

A proprietary algorithm developed by RSA Data Security, Inc., RC2 is an alternative to DES. The algorithm expands a single message by up to 8 bytes. RC2 is a block cipher that encrypts data in blocks ...
Business Wire

“John the Ripper” Open Source Password Cracker Offers Increased Speed Through 17 Percent Improvement in Gate Count for Data Encryption Standard (DES) Algorithm

MOSCOW--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Openwall, an open source-based, professional IT and security services company, has released an updated version of “John the Ripper,” a password security auditing tool and open ...
ZDNet

To stop quantum hackers, the US just chose these four quantum-resistant encryption algorithms

The U.S. Department of Commerce's National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has selected four quantum-resistant cryptographic algorithms for general encryption and digital signatures. NIST ...
TechNewsWorld

Quantum Computer Leap Could Make Today’s Encryption Passe

Researchers atMIT and theUniversity of Innsbruck last week announced that they had designed and constructed the world’s first scalable quantum computer, a development that could make existing ...