New Anonymous Phone Service
A new anonymous phone service allows you to sign up with just a zip code.
Encryption
Protect Your Digital Life with a 5-Year iProVPN Plan for $20
Protect 10 devices with encrypted browsing, global server access, and long-term online privacy you control.
The post Protect Your Digital Life with a 5-Year iProVPN Plan for $20 appeared first on TechRepublic.
Niobium Raises $23 Million for FHE Hardware Acceleration
The startup will invest the funds in accelerating development of its second-generation fully homomorphic encryption (FHE) platforms.
The post Niobium Raises $23 Million for FHE Hardware Acceleration appeared first on SecurityWeek.
IACR Nullifies Election Because of Lost Decryption Key
The International Association of Cryptologic Research—the academic cryptography association that’s been putting conferences like Crypto (back when “crypto” meant “cryptography”) and Eurocrypt since the 1980s—had to nullify an online election when trustee Moti Yung lost his decryption key.
For this election and in accordance with the bylaws of the IACR, the three members of the IACR 2025 Election Committee acted as independent trustees, each holding a portion of the cryptographic key material required to jointly decrypt the results. This aspect of Helios’ design ensures that no two trustees could collude to determine the outcome of an election or the contents of individual votes on their own: all trustees must provide their decryption shares…
Quantum encryption is pushing satellite hardware to its limits
In this Help Net Security interview, Colonel Ludovic Monnerat, Commander Space Command, Swiss Armed Forces, discusses how securing space assets is advancing in response to emerging quantum threats. He explains why satellite systems must move beyond tra…
New Sturnus Android Malware Reads WhatsApp, Telegram, Signal Chats via Accessibility Abuse
Sturnus, an advanced Android banking trojan, has been discovered by ThreatFabric. Learn how this malware bypasses end-to-end encryption on Signal and WhatsApp, steals bank credentials using fake screens, and executes fraudulent transactions.
Book Review: The Business of Secrets
The Business of Secrets: Adventures in Selling Encryption Around the World by Fred Kinch (May 24, 2024)
From the vantage point of today, it’s surreal reading about the commercial cryptography business in the 1970s. Nobody knew anything. The manufacturers didn’t know whether the cryptography they sold was any good. The customers didn’t know whether the crypto they bought was any good. Everyone pretended to know, thought they knew, or knew better than to even try to know.
The Business of Secrets is the self-published memoirs of Fred Kinch. He was founder and vice president of—mostly sales—at a US cryptographic hardware company called Datotek, from company’s founding in 1969 until 1982. It’s mostly a disjointed collection of stories about the difficulties of selling to governments worldwide, along with descriptions of the highs and (mostly) lows of foreign airlines, foreign hotels, and foreign travel in general. But it’s also about encryption…
Retailers are learning to say no to ransom demands
Ransomware remains one of the biggest operational risks for retailers, but the latest data shows a shift in how these attacks unfold. Fewer incidents now lead to data encryption, recovery costs have dropped, and businesses are bouncing back faster. Yet…
Signal’s Post-Quantum Cryptographic Implementation
Signal has just rolled out its quantum-safe cryptographic implementation.
Ars Technica has a really good article with details:
Ultimately, the architects settled on a creative solution. Rather than bolt KEM onto the existing double ratchet, they allowed it to remain more or less the same as it had been. Then they used the new quantum-safe ratchet to implement a parallel secure messaging system.
Now, when the protocol encrypts a message, it sources encryption keys from both the classic Double Ratchet and the new ratchet. It then mixes the two keys together (using a cryptographic key derivation function) to get a new encryption key that has all of the security of the classical Double Ratchet but now has quantum security, too…
White Label Crypto Bank Solutions: Building Digital Banking for the Blockchain Era
The growing demand for crypto-friendly financial services has accelerated the rise of white-label crypto bank solutions. These ready-made…