Security firm Mandiant has released a database that allows any administrative password protected by Microsoft’s NTLM.v1 hash ...

Astronaut Wang Haoze is out of the return capsule of the Shenzhou XIX crewed spaceship at the Dongfeng landing site in North China's Inner Mongolia autonomous region, April 30, 2025. [Photo/Xinhua] ...

Cryptography secures communication in banking, messaging, and blockchain. Good algorithms (AES, RSA, ECC, SHA-2/3, ChaCha20) are secure, efficient, and widely trusted. Bad algorithms (DES, MD5, SHA-1, ...

Currently, the BGP implementation in FRRouting exclusively supports MD5 as the authentication hashing algorithm. However, MD5 has been widely acknowledged to have critical security vulnerabilities ...

Your browser does not support the audio element. What is so special about it? Another cryptographic algorithm with a fancy name added to your list of things to ...

The quest to make biometric data private and secure has led to the development of biometric hashing. Hashing is a one-way process in which an algorithm called a cryptographic hash function takes an ...

Abstract: In information security, message authentication is an essential technique to verify that received messages come from the alleged source and have not been altered. A key element of ...

Quantum computing is on the horizon, promising to solve complex problems beyond the capabilities of classical computers. But for Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies, which rely on today’s cryptographic ...

While passwords remain the first line of defense for protecting user accounts against unauthorized access, the methods for creating strong passwords and protecting them are continually evolving. For ...