Facebook’s parent company has begun rolling out end-to-end encryption across Messenger and Facebook, Meta announced on Thursday. The company’s vice-president for Messenger, Loredana Crisan, said the encryption was built on the Signal protocol and Meta’s own Labyrinth protocol. Crisan said the new features announced as part of the rollout took […]
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Faulty encryption can put data at risk Yuichiro Chino/Getty Images Hardware faults are leaking hundreds of supposedly unbreakable encryption keys on to the internet, researchers have found – and spy agencies may be exploiting the loophole to read secret messages. RSA is a widely-used encryption scheme that depends on two […]
They call it Q-Day: the day when a quantum computer, one more powerful than any yet built, could shatter the world of privacy and security as we know it. It would happen through a bravura act of mathematics: the separation of some very large numbers, hundreds of digits long, into […]
The US National Security Agency headquarters at Fort Meade, Maryland SAUL LOEB/AFP via Getty Images A prominent cryptography expert has told New Scientist that a US spy agency could be weakening a new generation of algorithms designed to protect against hackers equipped with quantum computers. Daniel Bernstein at the University […]
Law enforcement agencies worldwide including the FBI and Interpol are slamming Facebook and Instagram parent Meta, alleging its plans to roll out expanded end-to-end encryption could effectively “blindfold” the company from detecting instances of child sex abuse. The Virtual Global Taskforce, an alliance of 15 law enforcement agencies tasked with […]
A Manhattan federal judge on Thursday suggested he’d lock disgraced FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried up pending trial if the accused fraudster continues to improperly use electronic devices while out on bail. Judge Lewis Kaplan asked federal prosecutors and Bankman-Fried’s attorneys why he should allow the alleged crypto crook to return […]
It has long been known that one day quantum computers will probably be able to crack the RSA encryption method we use to keep data safe, but a team of researchers is now claiming it is already possible, while others say the results require more scrutiny Technology 5 January 2023 […]
TAMPA, Fla. — British cybersecurity software developer Arqit is looking to sell a partly built satellite after scrapping plans for a space-based quantum encryption network. Arqit said Dec. 14 it no longer needs satellites to deliver encryption keys that can resist attacks from quantum computers. Instead, the company said it […]