The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) recently proposed standardizing the block and key size used in the Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) to 256 bits. According to NIST, ...

IFEX joins rights groups in calling on governments and the private sector to pursue policies that enhance, strengthen, and promote use of strong encryption to protect people everywhere. Strong ...

Marriot revealed in a court case around a massive 2018 data breach that it had been using secure hash algorithm 1 and not the much more secure AES-1 encryption as it had earlier maintained. For more ...