When I sent out this alert about Banks not using SSL to prove their identity to their users, quite a bit of feedback was excessively cynical on encryption technology and cryptography in general along ...

It took four years, 331,000 participants and a difficult legal case, but the relentless efforts of Distributed.net and its supporters have finally broken a 64-bit encryption key developed by RSA Data ...

The legal nightmare for David McOwen ended last week with a minor fine, probation, and a lesson learned: Ask before you install software on somebody else’s computer. McOwen was facing a fine of up to ...

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