More Military Cryptanalytics, Part III
August 31 2021Late last year, the NSA declassified and released a redacted version of Lambros D. Callimahos’s Military Cryptanalytics, Part III. We just got most of the index. It’s hard to...
Read moreBig bad decryption bug in OpenSSL – but no cause for alarm
August 27 2021The buggy code's in there, alright. Fortunately, it's hard to get OpenSSL to use it even if you want to, which mitigates the risk.
Read moreApple’s NeuralHash Algorithm Has Been Reverse-Engineered
August 18 2021
Apple’s NeuralHash algorithm — the one it’s using for client-side scanning on the iPhone — has been reverse-engineered.
Turns out it was already in iOS 14.3, and...
Read moreLatest episode - listen now! (And learn about the Navajo Nation's selfless cryptographic contribution to America.)
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Read morePasswords - don't just pay them lip service.
Read moreBizarro Banking Trojan
May 20 2021
Bizarro is a new banking trojan that is stealing financial information and crypto wallets.
…the program can be delivered in a couple of ways — either via malicious links...
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This is a newly unclassified NSA history of its reaction to academic cryptography in the 1970s: “NSA Comes Out of the Closet: The Debate over Public Cryptography in the...
Read moreNo IT technology feels quite as much of a double-edged sword as encryption.
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