Atmel Corp. has just released two new ARM7TDMI-based flash microcontrollers with embedded 10/100 Ethernet MAC, CAN, full-speed (12 Mbps) USB 2.0 and a high speed AES/3DES encryption engine. Designed ...
Achieving computer security is a hard problem because it’s a negative goal, according to MIT Professor Nickolai Zeldovich in the online course “Tackling the Challenges of Big Data,” which runs through ...
Traditional block ciphers work on fixed blocks of data—as an example, AES is well-defined for 128/192/256 bits. But one of the issues is the need for padding—so if you need to encrypt small amounts of ...
Encryption is a popular topic among security professionals and occasionally a polarizing one. Plenty of misconceptions surround the process, and these often skew the way people perceive its complexity ...
A team of Cisco software engineers has created a new encryption scheme, and has released it to the public along with the caveat that this new block cypher is not ready for production, i.e. is still in ...