InfoWorld

NIST says DES encryption ‘inadequate’

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is proposing that the Data Encryption Standard (DES), a popular encryption algorithm, lose its certification for use in software products sold ...
Business Wire

“John the Ripper” Open Source Password Cracker Offers Increased Speed Through 17 Percent Improvement in Gate Count for Data Encryption Standard (DES) Algorithm

MOSCOW--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Openwall, an open source-based, professional IT and security services company, has released an updated version of “John the Ripper,” a password security auditing tool and open ...
Government Technology

A ‘Coup des Gens’ Is Underway – and We’re Increasingly Living Under the Regime of the Algorithm

I recently attended a large meeting of faculty to discuss graduate students’ evaluation, recruitment and retention. “Let the data drive your goals,” one of the speakers repeated, mantra-like — with ...
ZDNet

DES encryption leaves SIM cards vulnerable to exploitation

Karsten Nohl, the founder of Berlin's Security Research Labs, has announced an exploit for SIM cards using the outdated 56-bit DES algorithm for its signature verification. The security researcher ...
Ars Technica

The NSA’s work to make crypto worse and better

The mission of the US National Institute of Standards and Technology, NIST, is to create technical and measurement standards to make US manufacturing and industry more competitive. In 1987, the ...
Houston Chronicle

Types of Symmetric Encryption Algorithms

Algorithms for encrypting computer data come in two main varieties: symmetric and asymmetric. Each encryption type has inherent strengths and weaknesses. Symmetric algorithms convert plain-text data ...