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AI, ECDSA, and Bitcoin’s Endgame? Ledger CTO Pushes Back Against Cryptographic Apocalypse Predictions

Ledger CTO Charles Guillemet has rebuffed fears that AI could break Bitcoin’s cryptography in the coming months. He said there is no sign of an imminent breakthrough that could break the Elliptic ...

Cryptography that pursues smallness surprisingly becomes brittle first

IntroductionHello everyone. This is Pei from WingArc1st.For a long time, RSA was the mainstream for public-key cryptography ...
Business Wire

First Post Quantum Cryptographic Algorithm Certificates Issued

AUSTIN, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--NIST published the final version of FIPS 203 (ML-KEM), FIPS 204 (ML-DSA), and FIPS 205 (SLH-DSA) on August 13, 2024, making the first post-quantum cryptographic (PQC) ...
Crypto Briefing

Ava Labs explores backup cryptography as Sirer flags AI security risks

Ava Labs CEO Emin Gün Sirer says AI will exploit software bugs before breaking ECDSA as Avalanche explores backup ...
Ars Technica

Mythos attack on 3rd-round PQC algorithm candidate puts it out of commission

A quantum-resistant cryptography algorithm that was under consideration as an official US standard has been taken out of the running after an Anthropic security model helped find a flaw that rendered ...

50 Years Of RSA: Preparing For The Internet’s Next Cryptographic Transition

RSA succeeded beyond what its creators could have imagined. But as we approach its 50th anniversary, we are also approaching ...
Military

Trusted computing can depend on asymmetric cryptography algorithms to assure the integrity of protected data

ASHBURN, Va. – There are three general categories of cryptographic algorithms commonly employed in trusted computing: secure hashing, symmetric cryptography, and asymmetric cryptography. Asymmetric ...
ZDNet

To stop quantum hackers, the US just chose these four quantum-resistant encryption algorithms

The US now has four post-quantum cryptographic algorithms it plans to make part of a new set of public-key cryptography standards by 2024. The U.S. Department of Commerce’s National Institute of ...
eWeek

Researchers from Google, CTI Break SHA-1 Hash Encryption Function

AI success depends on whether enterprise data is ready, reachable, and close enough to the workloads that need it. In this eSpeaks episode, Dell Technologies’ Vrashank Jain explains why fragmented ...
SD Times

NIST approves three cryptographic algorithms capable of withstanding quantum computers

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has announced its first three post-quantum cryptographic algorithms, which will be able to safeguard data even in the event that quantum ...
Military

Trusted computing and the challenges of cryptographic algorithms in quantum computing

ASHBURN, Va. – At its core, quantum computing is very different from a traditional computer. The quantum computer operates on qubits, using quantum gates and measurements, rather than operating on ...
Wired

A Celebrated Cryptography-Breaking Algorithm Just Got an Upgrade

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. In our increasingly digital lives, security depends on cryptography. Send a private message or pay a bill online, and you’re relying on ...