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Speaking of SMSes, Google announced today it’s making its Messages by Google app more secure with improvements to RCS, or Rich Communication Services — a protocol aimed at replacing SMS and is more on par with the advanced features found in Apple’s iM…
Federal regulators continued their crackdown against employees of Wall Street firms using private messaging apps to communicate, with 11 brokerage firms and investment advisers agreeing Tuesday to pay $549 million in fines. From a report: Wells Fargo, …
SandboxAQ today introduced an open-source cryptography management framework built for the post-quantum era. The AI and quantum spin-out from Alphabet uses the Sandwich framework for the Cryptoservice module in its SandboxAQ Security Suite, currently used by several U.S. government agencies, global banks, telcos, and tech companies. The framework is designed to simplify cryptography management and […]
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I just read an article complaining that NIST is taking too long in finalizing its post-quantum-computing cryptography standards.
This process has been going on since 2016, and since that time there has been a huge increase in quantum technology and an equally large increase in quantum understanding and interest. Yet seven years later, we have only four algorithms, although last week NIST announced that a number of other candidates are under consideration, a process that is expected to take “several years.
The delay in developing quantum-resistant algorithms is especially troubling given the time it will take to get those products to market. It generally takes four to six years with a new standard for a vendor to develop an ASIC to implement the standard, and it then takes time for the vendor to get the product validated, which seems to be taking a troubling amount of time…
For storing passwords, Slashdot reader eggegick has a simple, easy solution: “I use Vim to keep my passwords in an encrypted file.”
But what’s the easiest solution for people who don’t use Vim?
My wife is not a Linux geek like I am, so she’s using […
Once known for distributing hacking tools and shaming software companies into improving their security, a famed group of technology activists is now working to develop a system that will allow the creation of messaging and social networking apps that w…
Seems that there is a deliberate backdoor in the twenty-year-old TErrestrial Trunked RAdio (TETRA) standard used by police forces around the world.
The European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI), an organization that standardizes technologies across the industry, first created TETRA in 1995. Since then, TETRA has been used in products, including radios, sold by Motorola, Airbus, and more. Crucially, TETRA is not open-source. Instead, it relies on what the researchers describe in their presentation slides as “secret, proprietary cryptography,” meaning it is typically difficult for outside experts to verify how secure the standard really is…
NIST is falling behind on FIPS 140-3 certifications and post-quantum cryptography, and the results could be disastrous for cybersecurity.
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Apple could opt to pull iMessage and FaceTime services in the U.K. in response to the government’s surveillance demands. In light of the government’s surveillance demands, Apple might consider withdrawing iMessage and FaceTime services from the U.K. The UK government wants to give more surveillance powers to its intelligence agencies proposing changes to the Investigatory Powers […]
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Google today announced its support for interoperable end-to-end encrypted communication between large messaging platforms, with plans to integrate the MLS protocol into Google Messages and Android. 9to5Google reports: Google says it is “strongly suppor…