Internet security firm RSA Security is challenging individuals to test the strength of its algorithms in its latest crypto Factoring Challenge, with a cash prize of up to $200,000 at stake.

Reuters' explicit accusation, however, is that RSA then accepted $10 million from the NSA to make that backdoored algorithm its default offering within BSAFE. "Undisclosed until now," reported the ...

Researchers at Black Hat USA 2013 made a call for usage of elliptic curve cryptography in favor of the RSA algorithm, which the experts said could be cracked in the next five years. LAS VEGAS – ...

Academics are expected to release a study this week that demonstrates how the NSA used a second cryptographic tool in RSA BSafe crypto libraries called Extended Random to facilitate its spying efforts ...

The stage is set: the wily Apple facing off against the heavyweight FBI bruiser. The contest: industry argues unbreakable crypto should be just that – unbreakable. In the other corner, the suits at ...

Vince Berk is the Chief Strategist at Quantum Xchange, a post-quantum crypto-agility provider. Ph.D. in AI/ML, founder of FlowTraq. A recent paper from Chinese researchers claiming that they can break ...

Security company RSA was paid $10 million to use the flawed Dual_EC_DRBG pseudorandom number generating algorithm as the default algorithm in its BSafe crypto library, according to sources speaking to ...

Dr. Leonard Adleman tells InfoWorld all about RSA's big breakthrough, why DNA works great for computing, and our coming cyberwar risk I recently had the pleasure of interviewing Dr. Leonard Adleman — ...

In the end, critical infrastructure’s biggest quantum risk is the outdated, manual trust models of today. Only by replacing ...

RSA, the security firm that confirmed two of its products by default use a crucial cryptography component reportedly weakened by the National Security Agency, said such design choices are made ...