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 ...
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CAST Releases First Commercial SNOW-V Stream Cipher IP Core

Woodcliff Lake, New Jersey — March 3, 2025 — Semiconductor intellectual property core provider CAST today announced a new IP core that implements the SNOW-V stream cipher algorithm to meet the ...
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encryption algorithm

A formula used to turn ordinary data, or "plaintext," into a secret coded message known as "ciphertext." The ciphertext can reside in storage or travel over unsecure networks without its contents ...
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Scalable IP Core of Vector Stream Cipher

Such high-speed features of VSC come from full-scalable encryption algorithm as described as follows. VECTOR STREAM CIPHER AS FULL-SCALABLE CHAOTIC ENCRYPTION Our VSC is a kind of stream cipher. Thus, ...
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Quantum computing will make cryptography obsolete. But computer scientists are working to make them unhackable.

Quantum computers are coming. And when they arrive, they are going to upend the way we protect sensitive data. Unlike classical computers, quantum computers harness quantum mechanical effects — like ...