Tag Archives: Public-key cryptography

Google ranks HTTPS Sites Higher

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Google announced in a blog post that they rank https sites higher in search results. The search monopoly says that they are already do this since the past few months. They include https into the set...

Heartbeat Heartbleed Bug Breaks Internet Security Again

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Most of the time most people are blissfully unaware it is even happening. Whether you are a consumer accessing your Internet bank site, using a mobile application to log in and share data or trading...

Could ‘Multisig’ Help Bring Consumer Protection to Bitcoin Transactions?

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The bitcoin world, which has never been dull, is getting even more interesting with the growth of multi-signature approaches—called “multisig”—for authorizing transactions. This has the potential to...

Evaluating the dangers behind those Ominous Browser Warnings

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From time to time when searching the Internet, your browser will stop you with an ominous warning: “This connection is untrusted.” I encountered this issue most recently when going to getcocoon.com,...

Google Chrome Add-On Transforms Your Browser Into A Bitcoin Wallet

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As more than 1,200 Bitcoin community members converged on Miami Beach for the first North American Bitcoin conference this past weekend, Andrew Toth, a software engineer from Toronto, Canada, decided...

Researchers Break RSA 4096 Encryption With Just A Microphone And A Couple Of Emails

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As if it wasn’t enough that the NSA paid RSA $10 million to adopt an algorithm that wasn’t entirely secure, researchers have now demonstrated that they can break even RSA 4096 bit encryption with...
    






NSA paid RSA to use flawed code on security software

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The NSA did not only promoted a flawed encryption software to be used on some products, it also paid millions of dollars to a top computer security company to promote that software. This is the...