Threat Post

Attack Exploits Weakness in RC4 Cipher to Decrypt User Sessions

It’s been more than 25 years since Ron Rivest invented his RC4 stream cipher, and after all that time it’s still being used widely, which is something of an achievement in the crypto world. However, ...
RFID Journal

NSA Offers Block Ciphers to Help Secure RFID Transmissions

The National Security Agency (NSA) is offering two families of encryption algorithms, known as block ciphers, intended to provide a level of security for such processes as authentication or ...
Threat Post

Malware Writers Use Block Cipher in Latin America

The creators of banking trojan programs in Brazil are using sophisticated block ciphers to encrypt their malware, making detection by anti virus products more difficult. The creators of banking trojan ...
Design-Reuse

AES Encryption & Decryption with Programmable Block Cipher Mode AES-P

The Alma Technologies AES-P IP Core implements the FIPS-197 Advanced Encryption Standard. It can be programmed to encrypt or decrypt 128-bit blocks of ...
CSOonline

Gigamon’s ‘Precryption’ to block attacks hiding behind encryption

Gigamon’s Precryption technology uses Linux’s eBPF to inspect pre-encryption and post-decryption network traffic for malicious activity. With promises of unprecedented visibility into encrypted ...
Design-Reuse

AES Encryption & Decryption with Fixed Block-Cipher Mode

The AES-C core from Alma Technologies implements the FIPS-197 Advanced Encryption Standard. It can be programmed to encrypt or decrypt 128-bit blocks ...