cryptography

14 posts tagged with “cryptography”

Quantum Cryptography for Risk Managers or Shor, Grover, and the Crypto-Apocalypse

23-Sep-2021

According to some, quantum cryptography will revolutionize cryptography, kill our current ciphers, and reveal all our secrets. But if you're…

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Why Organizations Need to Become Crypto-Agile and What that Means

16-Sep-2021

Cryptographic change is a reality. Since 2006, we have seen the sunset of WEP, SSLv2, RSA-1024, SSLv3 and early TLS. We know that Triple DES…

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How a $1200 Graphics Card Threatens Your PCI DSS Compliance and Security

20-May-2021

Organizations subject to PCI DSS compliance validation spend significant amounts of time, effort, and money to maintain and validate their…

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NIST is Sunsetting Triple DES - so what will the Financial Industry do?

09-Apr-2019

NIST recently published a document "Transitioning the Use of Cryptographic Algorithms and Key Lengths" which formalizes the sunset of Triple…

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NIST Update to Format Preserving Encryption Standard affects PCI Use Cases

21-Mar-2019

Last month NIST announced they were seeking feedback on a proposed updated guidance for FPE. More formally this is SP 800-38G rev…

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NIST Moves on Sweet32 - 3DES, Blowfish, and Others - Mostly Unsafe

19-Jul-2017

Now is the time to stop using 64-bit block length ciphers such as 3DES (TDEA) and Blowfish in general purpose applications of cryptography…

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7 Things You Can Do To Deal With The Recent Format Preserving Encryption (FPE) Compromise

26-Apr-2017

Barely a year after NIST approved Format-Preserving Encryption (FPE) based on AES they've issued a news release that one of the approved…

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SHA-1 Is Dead!

23-Feb-2017

History The SHA-1 cryptographic hash function was introduced in 1995. Weaknesses began to be discovered in 2005, and in 2011 NIST deprecated…

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Why the Apple vs. FBI Dispute Is A Good Thing

01-Mar-2016

The Internet and mainstream media has been ablaze with articles and opinion pieces about the dispute between the FBI and Apple over an…

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Sunset of SSL Extended

22-Dec-2015

If you’ve been struggling with keeping up with various SSL vulnerabilities and planning an orderly cutover to TLS then the recent…

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Must Format Preserving Encryption (FPE) be distinguishable from cardholder data for PCI?

17-Apr-2015

Previously we looked at Format Preserving Encryption (FPE) its characteristics and suitability for application in solutions intended for PCI…

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PCI DSS Version 3.1 Has Arrived

15-Apr-2015

The PCI Security Standards Council today published the expected update to PCI releasing these documents including some specific migration…

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PCI Security Standards Council set to kill off SSL in PCI DSS/PA-DSS 3.1 updates

10-Mar-2015

The PCI council has released an announcement that they are preparing an updated version of the PCI DSS (v3.1) and PA-DSS (v3.1), where they…

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What is Format Preserving Encryption and is it suitable for PCI DSS?

23-Feb-2015

Format Preserving Encryption or FPE is recent technology that is beginning to show up in payment solutions with the promise of simplifying…

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