In the 1970s, Whitfield Diffie co-wrote the recipe for one of today’s most widely used security algorithms in a paper called “New Directions in Cryptography.” The paper was a blueprint of what came to ...

Asymmetric encryption (public-key algorithms) involves a key pair: a public key for encryption or signature verification and a private key for decryption or signing. This category includes RSA, Diffie ...

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For the third time in less than a year, security researchers have found a method to attack encrypted Web communications, a direct result of weaknesses that were mandated two decades ago by the U.S.

From on-premise to hybrid environments and the cloud, we have you covered. Read now A team of academics has disclosed today a theoretical attack on the TLS cryptographic protocol that can be used to ...