comment The Data Encryption Standard, or DES, was a mid-'70s brainchild of the National Bureau of Standards: the first modern, public, freely available encryption algorithm. For over two decades, DES ...

The first step in keeping information locked away from prying eyes is to make it safe in transit across the networks that connect users. That means using encryption suitable to the type of information ...

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 ...

Data at rest encryption is about as far from a cutting-edge topic as one can get. But while encrypting inactive data that is stored digitally is regarded by most security professionals as a must have, ...

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A weakness in XML Encryption can be exploited to decrypt sensitive information, researchers say. XML Encryption is used for securing communications between Web services by many companies, including ...