News tagged with rsa algorithm

Researchers find weakness in RSA authentication - common digital security system

The most common digital security technique used to protect both media copyright and Internet communications has a major weakness, University of Michigan computer scientists have discovered.

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Mar 03, 2010 | popularity 4 / 5 (5) | comments 3 | with audio podcast




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Thwarting the cleverest attackers

In the last 10 years, cryptography researchers have demonstrated that even the most secure-seeming computer is shockingly vulnerable to attack. The time it takes a computer to store data in memory, fluctuations in its power ...

Technology / Computer Sciences

created May 01, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

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

Data defenders: Researchers try to ward off increasingly sophisticated cyber attacks

(PhysOrg.com) -- Cyber attackers were busy last year. In July, a coordinated "denial of service" assault was launched on computers at the White House, Federal Trade Commission and departments of Treasury, ...

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Feb 02, 2010 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

New record in the area of prime number decomposition of cryptographically important numbers

An international team of scientists from EPFL (Switzerland), INRIA (France), NTT (Japan), CWI (The Netherlands) and Bonn University (Germany), has obtained the prime factors of the RSA challenge number RSA-768, using the ...

Other Sciences / Mathematics

created Jan 08, 2010 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (5) | comments 0

P vs. NP -- The most notorious problem in theoretical computer science remains open

In the 1995 Halloween episode of The Simpsons, Homer Simpson finds a portal to the mysterious Third Dimension behind a bookcase, and desperate to escape his in-laws, he plunges through. He finds himself wander ...

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Oct 29, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (24) | comments 5

Physicists use Bose-Einstein condensates to enhance factoring algorithm

(PhysOrg.com) -- Theoretically, quantum computing has the potential to work more efficiently and accurately than classical computing for certain processes, such as factoring. But quantum methods are experimentally ...

Physics / General Physics

created Nov 10, 2008 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (55) | comments 11 feature

Samsung Introduces 90-Nanometer High Performance Smart Card IC

Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., a leader in advanced semiconductor technology, announced today its 90-nanometer smart card IC with high data storage capacity for subscriber identity module (SIM) cards and mobile ...

Technology / Semiconductors

created Jun 12, 2008 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Researchers take step toward creating quantum computers using entangled photons in optical fibers

For now, full-fledged quantum computers are the stuff of science fiction — in last summer’s blockbuster movie Transformers, the bad guys use quantum computing to break into the U.S. Army's secure files in just 10 seconds ...

Physics / General Physics

created Apr 08, 2008 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (37) | comments 0

A mighty number falls

Mathematicians and number buffs have their records. And today, an international team has broken a long-standing one in an impressive feat of calculation.

Other Sciences / Mathematics

created May 21, 2007 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (112) | comments 0

Infineon Announces Trusted Platform Module to Enhance PC Security

In an effort to ensure safer computing, Infineon Technologies AG announced availability of its latest Trusted Platform Module (TPM) security microcontroller supporting the main specification 1.2 of the Trusted Computing Group ...

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created May 31, 2005 | popularity 2.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0


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