The system employs HMAC-SHA256 (Hash-based Message Authentication Code using SHA-256) for license integrity verification. SHA-256 refers to the Secure Hash Algorithm producing 256-bit hash values (see ...

Cryptography secures digital data using algorithms, essential in private secure communications. Cryptos use cryptographic methods like asymmetric encryption and hash functions for transactions.

Microsoft Edge already has a PDF reader that offers various annotation features such as highlighting, drawing, and read aloud. The company is now adding another useful feature to the mix — the ability ...

The National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) has enlisted quantum-safe encryption pioneer Arqit Quantum to help lead on the UK’s looming migration to post-quantum cryptography. The NCSC’s PQC Pilot ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Hard problems are usually not a welcome sight. But cryptographers love them. That’s because certain hard math problems underpin the ...

Quantum computing presents both a potential breakthrough and a cryptographic threat -- one that Microsoft is tackling through what it calls "progress towards next‑generation cryptography." In a post ...

Citrix added a handful of offerings to its NetScaler platform designed to strengthen enterprise data security. Chief among the updates is support for post-quantum cryptography (PQC). Initially teased ...

The looming ‘Q-Day’ should also be used as the stick to get approval to carry out a cryptographic inventory and roll out projects that foster cryptographic agility more generally. CISOs have been ...

Microsoft is updating Windows 11 with a set of new encryption algorithms that can withstand future attacks from quantum computers in a move aimed at jump-starting what’s likely to be the most ...

How would you react if you knew that all your constituents' information is now readable and available to the highest bidder? Since the proliferation of the Internet and digitization of government ...

Without strategic investments in technologies like ZK-proofs, the US risks losing its edge in national security, economic stability and technological dominance. Trade wars and proxy wars are underway ...