BIP-360 co-author Ethan Heilman says that making Bitcoin quantum-secure could take 7 years. Recent breakthroughs suggest time is running out.

Abstract: Background: With the rise of cloud storage, ensuring data security remains a challenge. Traditional encryption methods often trade off security for performance. This paper presents an ...

About time: Microsoft introduced support for the RC4 stream cipher in Windows 2000 as the default authentication algorithm for the Active Directory services. The system has been insecure for even ...

TL;DR: Although often labeled a "dark web" associated with criminal activity and illicit marketplaces, Tor is an invaluable tool for protecting online privacy. Developers are now working to make the ...

VeraCrypt is a powerful, free, and open-source disk encryption software widely recognized as the successor to TrueCrypt. It adds enhanced security to the algorithms used for system and partition ...

AES-NI is a CPU instruction set that accelerates AES encryption/decryption using hardware-based processing. Provides 3x–10x performance improvement over software-only AES implementations. Enhances ...

OpenVPN secures data with AES encryption, but software-based encryption alone can overwhelm CPUs, especially in high-traffic networks By offloading AES operations to dedicated CPU instructions, AES-NI ...