The American National Institute for Standards and Technology (NIST) is rather busy on the cryptographic front these days. Not only has it been busy in the area of Post-Quantum Cryptography (PQC), it ...

A formula used to turn ordinary data, or "plaintext," into a secret coded message known as "ciphertext." The ciphertext can reside in storage or travel over unsecure networks without its contents ...

Sony announced late last week that they have invented a new encryption mechanism known as "CLEFIA," a block cipher algorithm designed to help content producers deliver "advanced copy protection" with ...

Such high-speed features of VSC come from full-scalable encryption algorithm as described as follows. VECTOR STREAM CIPHER AS FULL-SCALABLE CHAOTIC ENCRYPTION Our VSC is a kind of stream cipher. Thus, ...

The FreeBSD Projectは7日（協定世界時）、FreeBSD 7-CURRENTへのCamelliaブロック暗号(Camellia Block Cipher)のソースコードの統合について発表した。次期リリースとなるFreeBSD 7.0-RELEASEにはCamelliaブロック暗号の機能が含まれる。 Camelliaブロック暗号はNTTおよび三菱電機に ...

AES is the Advanced Encryption Standard, a standard for cryptography that is used to encrypt data to keep it private. It is a popular cypher, used for many purposes, including the US Government to ...

A proprietary algorithm developed by RSA Data Security, Inc., RC2 is an alternative to DES. The algorithm expands a single message by up to 8 bytes. RC2 is a block cipher that encrypts data in blocks ...