I think we're talking about two different encryption algorithms. The RSA public key algorithm is the one discussed in the article. The distributed.net challenge is RC5, which I don't think has a ...

More than 80,000 of the top 1 million HTTPS domains on the Internet are vulnerable to a bug in the basic design of the Transport Layer Security (TLS) protocol that is used to encrypt communications ...

Security researchers exploited a threat actor's poor choice for encryption and discovered a new piece of malware along with network infrastructure that links to various targeted attacks. The new piece ...

So...these servers on the Internet still running 512 bit encryption from the 1990's.....if no one has updated that, then what are the chances they are being patched ...

Online cloud services are sometimes not the safest places to store your critical data, as some celebrities have discovered over the past few weeks. With the hacking of their cloud accounts exposing ...

The number of users at risk from the recently discovered Factoring attack on RSA-Export Keys (FREAK) flaw has increased substantially with Microsoft’s confirmation Thursday that all supported releases ...

Macintosh security software developer Intego on Thursday released ChatBarrier, a new tool that encrypts text messages sent using Apple’s iChat instant messaging software. ChatBarrier X3 uses 512-bit ...