News tagged with encryption algorithm

Scientists break satellite telephony security standards

Satellite telephony was thought to be secure against eavesdropping. German researchers at the Horst Gortz Institute for IT-Security (HGI) at the Ruhr University Bochum (RUB) have cracked the encryption algorithms of the European ...

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Feb 08, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | 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

First-ever calculation performed on optical quantum computer chip

(PhysOrg.com) -- A primitive quantum computer that uses single particles of light (photons) whizzing through a silicon chip has performed its first mathematical calculation. This is the first time a calculation ...

Physics / Quantum Physics

created Sep 03, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (36) | comments 10

WPA Wi-Fi Encryption Cracked In Sixty Seconds

(PhysOrg.com) -- Two Japanese computer scientists have developed a way to crack the WPA encryption between wireless routes and devices in 60 seconds.

Technology / Telecom

created Aug 28, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (9) | comments 1 weblog

BioVault locks up biometrics: Using biometrics for encryption, digital signatures

A system that allows biometric data to be used to create a secret key for data encryption has been developed by researchers in South Africa. They describe details of the new technology in the International Journal of Electronic Se ...

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Jul 31, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0