You might not have realized it, but the next great battle of cryptography began this month. It's not a political battle over export laws or key escrow or NSA eavesdropping, but an academic battle over ...
Security researchers at Google and the CWI Institute in Amsterdam have found a way to crack the Secure Hash Algorithm-1 (SHA-1) cryptographic function. The two organizations Thursday announced what ...
Mining algorithms are the backbone of blockchain-based networks like Bitcoin and other protocols. In blockchain technology, mining algorithms are necessary for transaction verification and network ...
“Fundamentally, the issue that leads to Kerberoasting is bad passwords,” Tim Medin, the researcher who coined the term ...
IOTA, a $2 billion cryptocurrency that supports Internet of things (IoT) transactions, was shown to have “serious weaknesses” according to a report recently released by researchers at MIT and Boston ...