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 ...

Cryptographer Horst Feistel ’37 spearheaded the work leading to encryption standards used during the 20th century. On March 17, 1975, the National Bureau of Standards (NBS) published its proposed Data ...

I think we're talking about two different encryption algorithms. The RSA public key algorithm is the one discussed in the article. The distributed.net challenge is RC5, which I don't think has a ...

Along with AES 256-bit encryption, MoneyMutual also uses the services of TrustedSite to scan its site daily for security risks. TrustedSite provides cybersecurity solutions to assist businesses in ...

LINDON, Utah, May 5 /PRNewswire/ -- A recent report from the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)--Special Publication 800-57 Part 3--reiterated NIST's position against the ...