Electronic Design

The importance of trapdoor functions

If you and I were to meet with no possibility of being overheard, we could agree upon the secret encryption key we would use in our public communications. One of the NIST-recognized encryption schemes ...
Business Wire

ASC X9 Releases New Standard for Ensuring Security of Symmetric Key Management in Retail Financial Transactions, Using AES DUKPT Algorithm

ANNAPOLIS, Md.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Today the Accredited Standards Committee X9 Inc. (X9) announced the release of a new standard enhancing the security of symmetric key management used in retail ...
Science Daily

First flaws in the Advanced Encryption Standard used for internet banking identified

Researchers have found a weakness in the AES algorithm used worldwide to protect internet banking, wireless communications, and data on hard disks. They managed to come up with a clever new attack ...
Threat Post

New AES Attack, 200-Year-Old Cipher Key Big Week in Crypto

It’s been quite a week in the world of cryptography. For a field in which advancements are measured in the smallest of terms and major breakthroughs can take decades, the three big news stories ...