The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is proposing that the Data Encryption Standard (DES), a popular encryption algorithm, lose its certification for use in software products sold ...

comment The Data Encryption Standard, or DES, was a mid-'70s brainchild of the National Bureau of Standards: the first modern, public, freely available encryption algorithm. For over two decades, DES ...

Karsten Nohl, the founder of Berlin's Security Research Labs, has announced an exploit for SIM cards using the outdated 56-bit DES algorithm for its signature verification.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

Back in 1998 , IT security researchers demonstrated that DES keys, which were also limited to 56 bits in length due to US export restrictions, could be cracked in less than three days and with a ...

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 ...

The Triple DES Coprocessor is a Data Encryption Standard (FIPS 46-3) peripheral computing DES and Triple DES (TDES and 3DES) encryption and decryption ...

Visa Inc. has “relaxed enforcement” of the July 1, 2010, deadline for petroleum retailers to install software that meets the so-called Triple Data Encryption Standard (also called 3DES or TDES) in ...

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Manhattan DA Cyrus Vance slams Apple over encryption stance. — -- Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance said today his office has 175 iPhones it can't open because of encryption, and said he ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Computer security experts were struggling this week to assess a startling claim by Chinese researchers that ...