Researchers found that an encryption algorithm likely used by law enforcement and special forces can have weaknesses that ...

The internet is moving to default SSL/TLS-based encryption, and in most cases, it already has. And so have security threats, which leverage encryption technology to penetrate enterprise defenses.

Calling the new attack POODLE—that's "Padding Oracle On Downgraded Legacy Encryption"—the attack allows a man-in-the-middle, such as a malicious Wi-Fi hotspot or a compromised ISP, to extract ...

A10 Networks’ graphic: rise of SSL traffic (A10 Networks) Even so, the use of encryption to hide malware is nothing new. “SSL encryption has become a ubiquitous tool for the enemy to hide sensitive ...

More sites nowadays are adopting encryption because it costs little to nothing to implement. In an age of daily data breaches, hacks, and mass surveillance, adopting a strong SHA2 algorithm is ...

TLS remains vulnerable to such attacks largely because of design decisions engineers made in the mid-1990s when SSL was first devised, Johns Hopkins University professor Matthew Green observed in ...

News CloudFlare reveals ‘Universal SSL’: Free, headache-free encryption for websites By Mikael Ricknäs Sep 29, 2014 8:23 am PDT ...

The four selected encryption algorithms will become part of NIST's post-quantum cryptographic standard, expected to be finalized around 2024. This selection marks the beginning of NIST's post ...

More by Sophie Bushwick This article was originally published with the title “New Encryption System Protects Data from Quantum Computers” in SA Space & Physics Vol. 2 No. 6 (December 2019) ...

POODLE (Padding Oracle On Downgraded Legacy Encryption) allows attackers to break the security of SSL 3.0, a protocol for secure Web communications that is 14 years old but still used as a last ...