ANNAPOLIS, Md.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Today the Accredited Standards Committee X9 Inc. (X9) announced the release of a new standard enhancing the security of symmetric key management used in retail ...

Recently, Professor Guilu Long, Dr. Zeguo Wang, Dr. Shijie Wei from Tsinghua University and Beijing Academy of Quantum Information Sciences, and Professor Lajos Hanzo from the University of ...

Members can download this article in PDF format. In the last two articles, we covered the basic concepts and two basic types of cryptography. In this article, we will look at specific implementation ...

Secretary of Commerce Don Evans announced December 4, 2001, the approval of a new information technology encryption standard for the federal government. The Advanced Encryption Standard, or AES, also ...

Private-key cryptography has been used for ages, especially on the battlefield. It employs a shared-secret key for communication. By contrast, public-key cryptography, invented in the mid-1970s, ...

In the last section we discussed the potential for optimizing algorithms, which can be done, but sometimes may not result in the type of performance required. As was mentioned, you can always move the ...