Category Archives: Cryptography

In recent post I wrote about NIST competition for new cryptographic hash function. NIST (National Institute for Standards and Technology) published now comments received on the hash algorithm requirements and evaluation criteria. Among others, big companies (Microsoft, IBM) sent their … Continue reading →

National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is having a competition for a new cryptographic hash function. NIST did a good job managing the AES process (competition for Advanced Encryption Standard). They are obviously going to do in similar way … Continue reading →

Article in the Epoch Times (a Chinese newspaper) writes about a brilliant Chinese professor who has cracked her fifth encryption scheme in ten years. There is also post on Slashdot about this. [Thanks to colleague Maksa for bringing this to … Continue reading →

In recent post on this blog, I mentioned attacks on RSA algorithm, so called “side-channel” attacks on secure systems. If these types of attacks show as successful, it can pose significant threat to DRM (Digital Rights Management). See more about … Continue reading →

Something interesting is going on with attacks against RSA cryptography algorithm. Read this post on famous Bruce Schneier’s blog and follow links from that post.

It’s been more than 20 years since quantum cryptography systems have been developed, taking over communication security from classical cryptography systems–the kind that used extremely difficult mathematical equations. Now, however, scientists Jacob Scheuer and Amnon Yariv have designed a new … Continue reading →