How Apple turned to math to defend against next-gen attacks on encryption

Apple says testing missed flaws in new encryption designed to protect against future attacks from quantum computers, so it ...
Scientific Research Publishing

Public Information. Flowchart of LB-RSA Key Generation.

ABSTRACT: The accelerating pace of quantum computing has drastically shortened the expected timeline for breaking classical encryption—surpassing predictions by a factor of 500 or more. Lattice-based ...
Times-Standard

Opinion | If hate-fueled algorithms cause real-world harm, California tech companies should pay

Whether by design or by quiet submission to a rapidly-evolving digital landscape, the world’s largest social media companies have allowed their platforms to become factories of division, ...
Psychology Today

Algorithms and the Erosion of Humanity

Do you remember the early days of social media? The promise of connection, of democratic empowerment, of barriers crumbling and gates opening? In those heady days, the co-founder of Twitter said that ...
GitHub

Implementation of symmetric and asymmetric encryption with AES and RSA algorithms for client applications of the Confy communication system.

A Python package that provides symmetric and asymmetric encryption functions for client applications of the Confy encrypted communication system, as well as prefixes that identify messages and ...
BizTech

How Financial Services Should Approach Post-Quantum Cryptography

Emerging quantum threats require immediate action. Here’s how financial services firms can get started on the path to post-quantum cryptography. Quantum computing may sound like futuristic arithmetic ...
IEEE

P-AES: Advanced Encryption Standard Parallel Optimization on MGPUSim

Abstract: Advanced Encryption Standard (AES), as one of the most popular encryption algorithms, has been widely studied on single GPU and CPU. However, the research on multi-GPU platforms is not deep ...
CNET

Apple Pulls iCloud Encryption Feature Following UK Government Demands

The company said it was "gravely disappointed" to no longer be able to offer Advanced Data Protection to iPhone users in the UK. Katie is a UK-based news reporter and features writer. Officially, she ...
The Washington Post

Apple yanks encrypted storage in U.K. instead of allowing backdoor access

Apple disabled its most secure data storage offering for new customers in Britain on Friday rather than comply with a secret government order that would have allowed police and intelligence agencies ...
TechRepublic

Apple Breaks Silence on UK Probe, Removes Data Protection Tool From UK Users

The U.K. government demanded a backdoor into Apple’s Advanced Data Protection. In response to a U.K. government inquiry about access to data sequestered on Apple devices, Cupertino has removed access ...
9to5Mac

Massive Marriott and Starwood data breaches require 13 fixes, says the FTC

The first of the three breaches dates all the way back to 2018. The Marriott International hotel group is the latest company to announce a large-scale hack of a customer database. “For approximately ...