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Crypto guru Whit Diffie takes ICANN security job

Six months after leaving his job at Sun Microsystems noted cryptographer Whitfield 'Whit' Diffie has landed a new gig, this time as a security adviser to the corporation that manages the Internet.

By Robert McMillan | 15 May, 2010 05:56

Tags: security, cryptography
Centrelink issues $500k unbreakable code for free

Centrelink will release its $560,000 smart card identification protocol for free in an attempt to buy-back security systems based on the technology.

By Darren Pauli | 29 April, 2009 10:59

Tags: centrelink, cryptography, pki
VeriSign buys Certicom after RIM withdraws bid

VeriSign said it plans to buy Certicom, just three days after Research In Motion's hostile bid for the security company unraveled.

By Nancy Gohring | 27 January, 2009 12:05

Tags: VeriSign, certicom, cryptography
Amateurs and pros vie to build new crypto standard

Fifteen-year-old Peter Schmidt-Nielsen spent only a month working on his submission, but he thinks he's come up with something "unusual and new." Never mind that he's up against some of the most famous cryptographers in the world.

By Robert McMillan | 10 November, 2008 10:53

Tags: SHA-2, cryptography, hashing
New attack against multiple encryption functions

Unless you're a dyed in the wool cryptographic geek you probably didn't know that there was a Crypto conference, or even a chain of worldwide crypto conferences that take place each year. Fortunately, for the most of us that aren't crypto geeks there are a handful of very highly skilled people who are; they can take the highly theoretical and complex mathematical proofs and arguments that make up most of modern cryptographic and cryptanalytic research and put it into plain language.

By Carl Jongsma | 22 August, 2008 10:01

Tags: cryptanalysis, cryptography, bruce schneier

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SLIDESHOW: CIO Blast from the Past - 60 years of cryptography

2009 marks 60 years since the advent of modern cryptography. In October 1949 Claude Shannon published a paper on the mathematical basis of cryptography and since then electronic communications has strived towards more security. Take a tour of the past six decades with CIO.

By Rodney Gedda | 18 September, 2009 15:07

Tags: cryptography, history

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