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‘Blast-RADIUS’ Critical Bug Blows Up IT Vacation Plans

Richi Jennings | July 10, 2024 | blast radius, collision-based-hashing-algorithm-disclosure, CVE-2024-3596, hash, hash algorithms, hash function, hash functions, Man In The Middle, man in the middle attack, man in the middle attacks, maninthemiddleattacks, md5 hash, men-in-the-middle attack, mitm, MitM Attack, mitm attacks, RADIUS, SB Blogwatch

MD5 MITM Muddle: Ancient, widely used protocol has CVSS 9.0 vulnerability ...

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1989 Tiananmen Square “Tank Man” image, with the text “inappropriate speech” superimposed

China Cracks Apple Private Protocol — AirDrop Pwned

Richi Jennings | January 10, 2024 | Airdrop, Apple, Beijing Wangshendongjian, china, Chinese, Chinese Communists, Chinese drive-by attack, chinese government, Great Firewall of China, hash, hash algorithms, hash function, hash functions, hash generation, hashes, Peoples Republic of China, rainbow table, SB Blogwatch

AirDrop hashing is weaksauce: Chinese citizens using peer-to-peer wireless comms “must be identified.” ...

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Amazing Fast Crypto for IoT — US NIST Fingers ASCON

Richi Jennings | February 9, 2023 | AEAD, aes, ASCON, CAESAR, cryptography, hash, hash algorithms, hash function, hash functions, Internet of things, Internet of Things (IoT), Internet of Things (IoT) Security, Internet of Things cyber security, iot, NIST, SB Blogwatch

Implementing modern cryptography standards on tiny IoT devices is hard. They’re underpowered, need to sip battery charge and something like AES is often overkill ...

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Passwords: A Game of Pwns – A Hash of Kings

Jacob Ansari | May 2, 2019 | cryptography, Game of Thrones, hash functions, password management, passwords, World Password Day

Apparently, someone put World Password Day (May 2) just before Star Wars Day (May 4) and while the most hotly anticipated final season on TV is airing (“Game of Thrones”). This seems ...

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