Microsoft will finally kill obsolete cipher that has wreaked decades of havoc

Microsoft is killing off an obsolete and vulnerable encryption cipher that Windows has supported by default for 26 years ...

Microsoft will soon deprecate the insecure RC4 encryption algorithm

Microsoft recently confirmed that it is finally deprecating RC4, the encryption method used by the Kerberos authentication protocol for the past three decades. Developed by mathematician ...
Semiconductor Engineering

Where Cryptography Is Headed

Reports began surfacing in October that Chinese researchers used a quantum computer to crack military-grade AES 256-bit encryption. Those reports turned out to be wrong, but that did little to dampen ...
Computerworld

Fed adoption of encryption standard may spread slowly

The federal government’s recent decision to adopt the Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) for securing sensitive information will trigger a move from the aging Data Encryption Standard (DES) in the ...