A new approach to chip design from network security processor maker NetOctave (Morrisville, NC) promises to boost secure-sockets-layer (SSL) performance while retaining the industry's existing ...

SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) is currently the most widely deployed security protocol. It is the security protocol behind secure HTTP (HTTPS), and thus is responsible for the little lock in the corner of ...

A longstanding joke in the cybersecurity industry is that the only way to truly secure data and information is to store it offline on a machine that cannot be connected to power or the internet — and ...

The FIDO2 industry standard adopted five years ago provides the most secure known way to log in to websites because it doesn’t rely on passwords and has the most secure form of built-in two-factor ...

Utimaco CTO Nils Gerhardt outlines the threat quantum computing poses to current methods of encryption, and suggests how cybersecurity can get ahead of the game. The US National Institute of Standards ...

More and more websites are looking to enable SSL encryption to protect their visitors from eavesdroppers and hackers. Now Web infrastructure company CloudFlare will make it a bit easier by adding that ...

The U.S. Department of Commerce's National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has selected four quantum-resistant cryptographic algorithms for general encryption and digital signatures. NIST ...

A known-plaintext attack (KPA) occurs when a hacker uses pairs of both encrypted and unencrypted data to figure out the encryption algorithm or key. In this attack, the hacker has access to both the ...