News tagged with cryptographic technologies

Mobile tech 'can replace cheques'

(PhysOrg.com) -- With cheques due to be phased out in the UK by 2018 new security technology developed at Oxford University could offer a replacement, allowing people a secure way to pay in almost any situation.

Technology / Hi Tech & Innovation

created Dec 18, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 2




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NIST proposes update to digital signature standard

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has announced proposed changes to a standard that specifies how to implement digital signatures, which can be used to ensure the integrity of electronic documents, ...

Technology / Other

created Apr 18, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

'Authentication Outlet': Electricity use can be managed, consumed on a per-user and per-device basis

In recent years, the situation surrounding the supply of electricity and energy has changed significantly, and this has raised social concern over the impact of such supply on the global environment and our ...

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created Mar 05, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Twists to quantum technique for secret messaging give unanticipated power

Quantum cryptography is the ultimate secret message service. Now new research, presented at the 2012 AAAS Annual Meeting, shows it can counter even the ultimate paranoid scenario: when the equipment or even the operator is ...

Physics / Quantum Physics

created Feb 19, 2012 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (11) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Sony's 'CLEFIA' encryption technology adopted as an international standard

Sony Corporation has been working to standardize ‘CLEFIA,’ the block cipher algorithm it developed and presented as a state-of-the-art cryptography technique in 2007, and announced today that after final ISO/IEC ...

Technology / Software

created Jan 26, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Choreographing dance of electrons offers promise in pursuit of quantum computers

(PhysOrg.com) -- In the basement of Hoyt Laboratory at Princeton University, Alexei Tyryshkin clicked a computer mouse and sent a burst of microwaves washing across a silicon crystal suspended in a frozen ...

Physics / General Physics

created Jan 12, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

NIST special publication expands government authentication options

A newly revised publication from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) expands the options for government agencies that need to verify the identity of users of their Web-based services. Electronic Authentication ...

Technology / Other

created Dec 21, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Researchers roll Einstein's dice: Developing a quantum random number generator

(PhysOrg.com) -- Quantum mechanics implies that uncertainty in experimental measurements are an inherent part of nature – an idea that Albert Einstein disparagingly characterized as “rolling dice”. ...

Physics / Quantum Physics

created Nov 30, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 58 | with audio podcast

World's toughest encryption scheme found 'vulnerable'

It was announced last week that cryptography researchers have found a “vulnerability” in the encryption scheme used in the vast majority of secure online transactions – a scheme known as AES-256. ...

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Aug 23, 2011 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (11) | comments 10 | with audio podcast

Simple security for wireless: no password required

In early August, at the Def Con conference — a major annual gathering of computer hackers — someone apparently hacked into many of the attendees’ cell phones, in what may have been the first successful breach ...

Technology / Telecom

created Aug 22, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (7) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

Next generation FeliCa contactless IC chip to be launched

Sony Corporation announces today the launch of the next generation FeliCa IC chip with enhanced security adopting the Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) encryption. The new IC chip will support AES as well ...

Technology / Semiconductors

created Jun 13, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0


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