The federal government has released hundreds of pages of documents, including orders and opinions from the secretive Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, related to the NSA’s surveillance programs, but legislators who have been involved in the process say that there still are significant details of the agency’s email and phone collection activities that remain secret. Senators […]
UPDATE–The revelations last week in leaked NSA documents that the intelligence agency had influenced the standards process at NIST to allegedly deliberately weaken unnamed cryptographic algorithms have spurred a huge amount of speculation and discussion in the security community about the implications and consequences of the NSA’s actions. For its part, NIST is seeking to […]
Dennis Fisher talks with cryptographer Bruce Schneier about the revelations of the NSA’s capabilities to subvert and weaken cryptographic algorithms, security products and standards, and what it will take to help defeat these capabilities.
If you were going to try and determine who has had a worse go of it recently, the NSA or certificate authorities, you’d likely have to just flip a coin. And the coin would probably end up balanced on its edge. While the National Security Agency is scrambling to respond to and recover from the […]
As security experts and cryptographers continue to debate and discuss the implications of the revelations of the NSA’s capabilities against various encryption protocols and systems, some of the larger Internet companies are taking steps to protect their users’ data against the new threat. Google, which has been in the middle of many of the conversations […]
The developers behind Bitcoin-QT, a software wallet used to protect and backup Bitcoin currency have pushed out a new version of the client, fixing a critical denial-of-service bug, three security issues and fortifying password security.
A new browser extension for Firefox is designed to use SSL and do so correctly by only accepting HTTPS requests.
In the wake of a parade of problems with certificate authorities and attackers using stolen digital certificates, both Google and Mozilla are poised to enforce new rules in their browsers for how long end-entity certificates should be trusted.
Researchers from MIT and the Northern University of Ireland stand by their theory that information theory is the wrong foundation for cryptography and security.
Microsoft has given customers six months to find MD5 installations and prepare for a February 2014 patch that will block the broken algorithm.
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