About time: Microsoft introduced support for the RC4 stream cipher in Windows 2000 as the default authentication algorithm for the Active Directory services. The system has been insecure for even ...

Tor has announced improved encryption and security for the circuit traffic by replacing the old tor1 relay encryption algorithm with a new design called Counter Galois Onion (CGO). One reason behind ...

IREN Limited (NASDAQ: IREN) and Cipher Mining Inc. (NASDAQ: CIFR) made major moves with Microsoft and Amazon, signaling their shift from Bitcoin mining to AI infrastructure. IREN Limited (NASDAQ: IREN ...

Two years ago, researchers in the Netherlands discovered an intentional backdoor in an encryption algorithm baked into radios used by critical infrastructure–as well as police, intelligence agencies, ...

Testing algorithm with different key values. ALGORITHM DESCRIPTION: The Hill cipher is a substitution cipher invented by Lester S. Hill in 1929. Each letter is represented by a number modulo 26. To ...

A view of NIST headquarters in Gaithersburg, Md. (Photo credit: NIST) The National Institute of Standards and Technology announced an algorithm that could serve as a second line of defense to ensure ...

Abstract: This research article presents a modified Hill Cipher algorithm that incorporates a novel alphanumeric encoding scheme, for the extended character set that includes alphabets, digits, and ...

The looming challenges of quantum computing have prompted the Java Platform to implement two advanced cryptographic solutions in its upcoming release, Java 24, slated for March 2025. Quantum computers ...