Security researchers have achieved the first real-world collision attack against the SHA-1 hash function, producing two different PDF files with the same SHA-1 signature. This shows that the algorithm ...

Microsoft will no longer support SHA-1 encryption in its Internet Explorer or Edge browsers. Fabio Lanari/Wikimedia Commons Microsoft announced this week it no longer will support the SHA-1 hashing ...

SHA-1 is a hashing function used to encrypt information. It generates a random string of characters that act as a digital fingerprint for plaintext information while making sure no one except the ...

SHA stands for Secure Hashing Algorithm and it basically turns anything written, in this case it will be bank details from the Bacs network, along with sort codes and bank account numbers, and ...

Bringing to a close a five-year selection process, the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has selected the successor to the encryption algorithm that is used today to secure ...

For more than 10 years, SHA-1 authentication was used to protect intellectual property (IP) from counterfeiting and illegal copying. But now, as information processing has advanced, engineers want an ...

At the Crypto 2004 conference in Santa Barbara, Calif., this week, researchers announced several weaknesses in common hash functions. These results, while mathematically significant, aren’t cause for ...

LAS VEGAS—Elie Bursztein, Google's lead anti-fraud researcher, began his talk here at Black Hat 2017 with an understatement: "It has been a long and interesting journey over the last few years." In ...

Google researchers say cracking RSA encryption now needs 20x fewer qubits than previously estimated. Bitcoin uses ECC and SHA-256, which are stronger than RSA, but the timeline for cracking them may ...