Karsten Nohl, the founder of Berlin's Security Research Labs, has announced an exploit for SIM cards using the outdated 56-bit DES algorithm for its signature verification. The security researcher ...

Our team tests, rates, and reviews more than 1,500 products each year to help you make better buying decisions and get more from technology. A flaw in the encryption technology used by some SIM cards ...

Encryption with DES has long been considered insecure, for more than two decades now. Now Microsoft is putting its money where its mouth is: DES encryption is finally being removed from Windows. Back ...

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is proposing that the Data Encryption Standard (DES), a popular encryption algorithm, lose its certification for use in software products sold ...

Cryptography is the fundamental technology used to protect information in today’s information economy. Not coincidently, it is also responsible for the commercialization of the Internet. Netscape was ...

The Triple DES Coprocessor is a Data Encryption Standard (FIPS 46-3) peripheral computing DES and Triple DES (TDES and 3DES) encryption and decryption ...