encryption
Telegram is NOT an Encrypted Messaging App, Must-See Documentaries
In this episode, we explore the recent arrest of Telegram founder Pavel Durov in France and discuss the app’s encryption claims. Is Telegram truly an encrypted messaging app? Joining the conversation is ...
‘Terrorgram’ Telegram Terrorists Trash Transformers — Grid in Peril
Should’ve listened to Edison: After the arrest of Pavel Durov—the Telegram CEO—comes news of domestic extremists using the chat app to organize ...
NIST Releases First Post-Quantum Encryption Algorithms
From the Federal Register: After three rounds of evaluation and analysis, NIST selected four algorithms it will standardize as a result of the PQC Standardization Process. The public-key encapsulation mechanism selected was ...
Google Using Enhanced Encryption to Protect Cookies
Google is adding greater encryption capabilities to Chrome to better protect users from information-stealing malware, a move that comes after the company's controversial decision to once again delay getting rid of third-party ...
Compromising the Secure Boot Process
This isn’t good: On Thursday, researchers from security firm Binarly revealed that Secure Boot is completely compromised on more than 200 device models sold by Acer, Dell, Gigabyte, Intel, and Supermicro. The ...
EU Aims to Ban Math — ‘Chat Control 2.0’ Law is Paused but not Stopped
Ongoing European Union quest to break end-to-end encryption (E2EE) mysteriously disappears ...
DNS and Your Privacy: Should you use encrypted DNS?
DNS enables the easy navigation from website to website as you currently know it. However, the system wasn’t exactly designed with your privacy and security in mind. Many DNS resolvers - such ...
Does Real Queryable Encryption mean there is a Fake Queryable Encryption?
TLDR There is no “fake” queryable encryption, but a certain NoSQL database provider has coined the term “Queryable Encryption”, and Baffle has something to say about that. Background To understand real queryable ...
From Promising to Practical: The Transformative Impact of Homomorphic Encryption
When the impact of a relatively unfamiliar technology sounds too good to be true, it’s natural to question those claims. Homomorphic encryption has been described as the ‘holy grail’ of encryption for ...
Hardware Vulnerability in Apple’s M-Series Chips
It’s yet another hardware side-channel attack: The threat resides in the chips’ data memory-dependent prefetcher, a hardware optimization that predicts the memory addresses of data that running code is likely to access ...
