Cryptography aficionados, say hello to a new hash algorithm backed by the National Institute for Standards and Technology (NIST). Dubbed Keccak (pronounced "catch-ack"), the secure hash algorithm, ...

A cryptographic hash function used in TLS / SSL, OpenPGP, etc.SHA-1To break Google, the NetherlandsCWI studyIt succeeded. As SHA - 1, which had been pointed out as "possibly being broken in theory", ...

The aging cryptographic hash function SHA-1 (Secure Hash Algorithm 1) has suffered what some experts consider its final blow today as researchers from Google and the CWI Institute revealed that they ...

Generating checksums—cryptographic hashes such as MD5 or SHA-256 functions for files is hardly anything new and one of the most efficient means to ascertain the integrity of a file, or to check if two ...

LAS VEGAS—Elie Bursztein, Google's lead anti-fraud researcher, began his talk here at Black Hat 2017 with an understatement: "It has been a long and interesting journey over the last few years." In ...