Smartphones set out to decipher a cryptographic system
While carrying out her master thesis on computer science, Ramasany Gowthami participated in the creation of an Android app by means of which users get together to crack a modern cryptographic code.
View ArticleDynamic encryption keeps secrets
Professor Lars Ramkilde Knudsen from DTU Compute has invented a new way to encrypt telephone conversations that makes it very difficult to 'eavesdrop'. His invention can help to curb industrial espionage.
View ArticleTelegram issues $200,000 in Bitcoins challenge to crack code
(Phys.org) —Anyone able to crack the encryption code of Telegram's message text wins a handsome award, but it needs to be by Telegram's rules. To win the money, you need to decipher the message, find...
View Article'Heartbleed' bug a critical Internet illness
The "Heartbleed" flaw in Internet security is as critical as the name implies and wider spread than first believed. Warnings about the danger exposed early this week reached widening circles on...
View ArticleMany in US believe the were hit by Heartbleed
Many Americans scrambled to protect their personal information online after learning of the Heartbleed Internet flaw, and some believe their data was stolen, a survey showed Wednesday.
View ArticleQuantum key distribution technology: Secure computing for the 'Everyman'
The largest information technology agreement ever signed by Los Alamos National Laboratory brings the potential for truly secure data encryption to the marketplace after nearly 20 years of development...
View ArticleIf you seek to 'switch off' encryption, you may as well switch off the whole...
Prime Minister David Cameron has stated that the UK government will look at "switching off" some forms of encryption in order to make society safer from terror attacks. This might make a grand...
View ArticleStolen SIM card keys could be powerful spy tool (Update)
It would be another powerful tool in the arsenal of US and British spy services: encryption keys for a large share of the SIM cards used for mobile phones.
View ArticleSIM maker Gemalto confirms possible spy attacks
European SIM maker Gemalto said Wednesday it had suffered hacking attacks that may have been conducted by US and British intelligence agencies but denied any "massive theft" of encryption keys that...
View ArticleGemalto hack shows how far we are from deciding acceptable 'security norms'
Is it true spies hack technology companies? Can governments really listen to your phone calls? Should we care? The latest details of NSA and GCHQ intelligence agency activities to come from files...
View ArticleEncryption for everyone
In the wake of the revelations that intelligence agencies have been engaged in mass surveillance activities, both industry and society at large are looking for practicable encryption solutions that...
View ArticleHow safe is encryption today?
When checking your email over a secure connection, or making a purchase from an online retailer, have you ever wondered how your private information or credit card data is kept secure?
View ArticleThe future of encryption
If you want to protect valuable information, wouldn't you keep it under lock and key?
View ArticleTechnology to securely turn biometric data into a cryptographic key
Fujitsu Laboratories Ltd. today announced the development of a technology that turns biometric data, such as palm veins, into a cryptographic key. This newly developed technology enhances the security...
View ArticleSome quantum cryptography systems vulnerable to hacking, study shows
Quantum cryptography is considered a fully secure encryption method, but researchers from Linköping University and Stockholm University have discovered that this is not always the case. They found that...
View ArticleMaking sense of the encryption debate
Last week, candidates in both the Republican and Democratic presidential debates offered some interesting views about the Internet. Whether it was Donald Trump suggesting that parts of the Internet be...
View ArticleThe genie is out of the bottle – it's foolish to think encryption can now be...
Politicians have turned their sights on encryption once more following terrorist outrages in Paris and San Bernardino, California.
View ArticleMaking message encryption easier
Sending emails is as easy as pie. However, until now a lot of know-how has been required to securely encrypt them. This is bound to change: Deutsche Telekom and the Fraunhofer Institute for Secure...
View ArticleCanada police eavesdropped on BlackBerry messages: media
Law enforcement officials in Canada using an encryption key have been able since at least 2010 to eavesdrop on messages between BlackBerry smartphones, an online news magazine reported.
View ArticleApple report shows 30,000 law enforcement data queries
Apple received some 30,000 data requests from law enforcement agencies globally in the second half of 2015, and provided information in a majority of cases, the company's latest transparency report...
View ArticleHow to hide secret messages using fizzy drinks
Next time you see someone spilling a drink in a bar, you could actually be witnessing a spy secretly decoding an encrypted message. This might sound like something from a Bond movie. But a team from...
View ArticleAnonymity network can protect users' identity if all but one of its servers...
Anonymity networks protect people living under repressive regimes from surveillance of their Internet use. But the recent discovery of vulnerabilities in the most popular of these networks—Tor—has...
View ArticleNow hear this: Emergency agencies turn off radio encryption
Some police and fire departments are bucking a trend to conceal dispatch communications from the public, acknowledging that radio encryption has the potential to backfire and put first responders in...
View ArticleEncrypting medical photos with chaos
Chaos and confusion could be used to encrypt colour photos and protect them from prying eyes, according to computer scientists in Algeria. Writing in the International Journal of Information and...
View ArticleThe world's fastest film camera: when light practically stands still
Forget high-speed cameras capturing 100 000 images per second. A research group at Lund University in Sweden has developed a camera that can film at a rate equivalent to five trillion images per...
View ArticleFounder of Russian messaging app defies official ultimatum
The founder of a Russian encrypted messaging app is defying the government's request to provide information about his company.
View ArticlePhysicists transmit data via Earth-to-space quantum entanglement
(Phys.org)—Two teams of researchers in China have advanced the distance that entangled particles can be used to send information, including encryption keys. In their papers, both uploaded to the arXiv...
View ArticleHigh-dimensional quantum encryption performed in real-world city conditions...
For the first time, researchers have sent a quantum-secured message containing more than one bit of information per photon through the air above a city. The demonstration showed that it could one day...
View ArticleRussia fines Telegram for not giving backdoor access
A Russian court on Monday fined the popular Telegram messenger app for failing to provide the country's security services with encryption keys to read users' messaging data.
View ArticleHigh-speed quantum encryption may help secure the future internet
Recent advances in quantum computers may soon give hackers access to machines powerful enough to crack even the toughest of standard internet security codes. With these codes broken, all of our online...
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