A recent, yet to be proven paper claiming to have found a way to "destroy the RSA cryptosystem" has cryptographers asking what might replace it. What if a big crack appeared overnight in the ...

Spotted an interesting report recently stating that 768-bit RSA encryption has been broken. Specifically, what researchers have done is factorised a 768=bit 232-digit number using a number field sieve ...

BEDFORD, Mass., May 6/PRNewswire/ --RSA, The Security Division of EMC (NYSE: EMC) today announced enhancements to RSA(R) Key Manager Suite (RKM), its enterprise encryption key management system ...

RSA certificates still vulnerable to 2019 flaw, reaearchers say. Update, March 20, 2025: This story, originally published March 17, has been updated with a statement from RSA regarding the encryption ...

Google researchers say cracking RSA encryption now needs 20x fewer qubits than previously estimated. Bitcoin uses ECC and SHA-256, which are stronger than RSA, but the timeline for cracking them may ...

Chinese researchers have successfully used D-Wave‘s quantum annealing systems to break classic encryption RSA, potentially accelerating the timeline for when quantum computers could pose a real threat ...

Encryption algorithms can be intimidating to approach, what’s with all the math involved. However, once you start digging into them, you can break the math apart into smaller steps, and get a feel of ...

The famous cryptographers Leonard Adleman, Ronald Rivest, and Adi Shamir – the developers of the RSA encryption code – received the Association for Computing Machinery’s 2002 Turing Award “for their ...

Games console maker Nintendo is using encryption technology developed by RSA Security's Brisbane Development Centre to encrypt wireless traffic between its soon-to-be-launched Nintendo DS portable ...