Karsten Nohl - who along with fellow researcher Henryk Plotz - hit the headlines two years ago when he publicly revealed how the MiFare encryption system worked. Nohl announced his findings at the ...

WEP is a flawed encryption scheme, It is crackable, so IMHO there is no point in using it. There are other options for strongly encryping your data though SSH, or IPSec tunnels come to mind if you ...

GSM is the most popular protocol for cellphone telephony on the planet, with billions of users worldwide. But the standard encryption procedure used by most GSM carriers is only 64-bit, and academic ...

Did you know that the vast majority of calls carried out on the 3.5 billion GSM connections in the world today are protected by a 21-year old 64-bit encryption algorithm? You should now, given that ...

It took four years, 331,000 participants and a difficult legal case, but the relentless efforts of Distributed.net and its supporters have finally broken a 64-bit encryption key developed by RSA Data ...

Encryption is a cat-and-mouse game, and Johns Hopkins University researchers have found a great way to prove it. In a new research that they shared with the Washington Post, the research team has ...

Atmel Corporation has announced its Keen+ reference design for the development of secure, 13.56 MHz logic-based, passive RFID, close proximity applications. The AT88SC-ADK2 Keen+ development kit ...

When I sent out this alert about Banks not using SSL to prove their identity to their users, quite a bit of feedback was excessively cynical on encryption technology and cryptography in general along ...