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 ...

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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 ...