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Researcher uses 379-year-old algorithm to crack crypto keys found in the wild |
Cryptographic keys generated with older software now owned by technology company Rambus are weak enough to be broken instantly using commodity hardware, a researcher reported on Monday. This revelation is part of an investigation that also uncovered a handful of weak keys in the wild. |
Aug 11, 2022
by
Dan Goodin - Ars Technica
Crypto News |
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$325 Million Stolen from Wormhole DeFi Service |
Wormhole and other blockchains, has been exploited - with 120,000 Ethereum (ETH) worth around $325 million Portal, a DeFi bridge between Solana stolen. This makes it the fourth largest crypto theft of all time, and the second biggest from a DeFi service. |
Feb 04, 2022
by Elliptic Threat Intel
Crypto News |
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Google Tink - A multi-language, cross-platform library that provides cryptographic APIs that are secure, easy to use correctly, and hard(er) to misuse. |
Google has released Tink and which is a multi-language, cross-platform cryptographic library. With OpenSSL we have complex bindings and which were often focused on specific systems, such as for DLLs in Windows systems. Tink is open-source and focuses on creating simple APIs and which should make the infrastructure more portable |
Jan 10, 2022
by Google
Crypto Blogs |
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The EARN IT Bill Is the Government's Plan to Scan Every Message Online |
Imagine an Internet where the law required every message sent to be read by government-approved scanning software. Companies that handle such messages wouldn't be allowed to securely encrypt them, or they'd lose legal protections that allow them to operate.Take ActionStop the Graham-Blumenthal... |
Mar 16, 2020
by Joe Mullin via Electronic Frontier Foundation
Crypto News |