About time: Microsoft introduced support for the RC4 stream cipher in Windows 2000 as the default authentication algorithm for the Active Directory services. The system has been insecure for even ...

As organizations face an evolving threat landscape, strengthening Windows authentication is more critical than ever. The deprecation of RC4 (Rivest Cipher 4) encryption in Kerberos is a shift toward ...

Tor has announced improved encryption and security for the circuit traffic by replacing the old tor1 relay encryption algorithm with a new design called Counter Galois Onion (CGO). One reason behind ...

AES-NI is a CPU instruction set that accelerates AES encryption/decryption using hardware-based processing. Provides 3x–10x performance improvement over software-only AES implementations. Enhances ...

Cisco ASA firewalls support advanced crypto features, including AES, 3DES, SHA, MD5, and IKEv1/IKEv2. Licensing is crucial; strong encryption (AES/3DES) requires activation via Cisco Smart Licensing.

Two years ago, researchers in the Netherlands discovered an intentional backdoor in an encryption algorithm baked into radios used by critical infrastructure–as well as police, intelligence agencies, ...

NordLocker is an encryption tool from the makers of NordVPN, offering a modern solution for file protection. It creates secure vaults in which you can drag and drop files to encrypt them. NordLocker ...

ABSTRACT: Backgrounds: The impact of digital image steganography (stego) and crypto-steganography (crypto-stego) on network performance has not been adequately examined. The major objective of this ...