Data Encryption Standard (DES) is an outdated symmetric key method of data encryption. It was adopted in 1977 for government agencies to protect sensitive data and was officially retired in 2005. IBM ...

Steve Weingart is the chief technology officer at Bulverde, Texas-basedFuturex, a company that produces cryptographic hardware. He has worked in cryptography for more than 20 years. The Data ...

IP Cores, Inc. announces an ultracompact IP core supporting the NIST FIPS 46-3 Data Encryption Standard (DES) and Triple DES (TDEA). Starting at 3K ASIC gates, DES1 core provides an efficient solution ...

The DES1 ASIC/FPGA core is an implementation of the DES and triple DES encryption and decryption in compliance with the NIST Data Encryption Standard.

Researchers have found a new way to recover and decrypt authentication cookies from 3DES and Blowfish protected traffic. In response, OpenSSL is expected to deprecate 3DES’ designation from high to ...

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 ...

Target’s admission that encrypted PIN data was stolen and secured with 3DES encryption has experts concerned because of the age of the algorithm and the availability of stronger options. Target ...

We know RIM and Microsoft are about to spend the next couple of years duking it out in the enterprise mobile communications device space, but there's one place you really can't argue RIM's superiority ...