Did you know that the vast majority of calls carried out on the 3.5 billion GSM connections in the world today are protected by a 21-year old 64-bit encryption algorithm? You should now, given that ...

Karsten Nohl - who along with fellow researcher Henryk Plotz - hit the headlines two years ago when he publicly revealed how the MiFare encryption system worked. Nohl announced his findings at the ...

GSM is the most popular protocol for cellphone telephony on the planet, with billions of users worldwide. But the standard encryption procedure used by most GSM carriers is only 64-bit, and academic ...

It took four years, 331,000 participants and a difficult legal case, but the relentless efforts of Distributed.net and its supporters have finally broken a 64-bit encryption key developed by RSA Data ...

Two layers will take longer than one, even if the first layer is easily breakable. <BR><BR>For normal use, though, (what you or I would do) using 64 bit encryption should be sufficent. If someone is ...

LAS VEGAS, Nov. 09, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Passport Technology ("Passport"), a global leader of payment technology for the gaming industry, is pleased to announce DataStream™ has completed the ...

I have been in the financial industry my whole career, protecting NPI and PII data. However, as we enter the era of quantum computing, strong encryption standards become even more crucial, especially ...

Spotted an interesting report recently stating that 768-bit RSA encryption has been broken. Specifically, what researchers have done is factorised a 768=bit 232-digit number using a number field sieve ...