By Joseph Menn SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – U.S. government standards for software may enable spying by the National Security Agency through widely used coding formulas that should be jettisoned, some of the country’s top independent experts concluded in papers released on Monday. Such mathematical formulas, or curves, are an arcane but essential part of most […]
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has released an updated draft of guidelines for evaluating risk in the supply chain. The organization issued the second public draft of the ‘Supply Chain Risk Management Practices for Federal Information Management Systems and Organizations’ for public comment earlier this week. The latest version includes changes made […]
In 2011, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) released a special publication with recommendations on transitioning the use of cryptographic algorithms. At the time, NISTnoted, SHA-1 shall not be used for digital signature generation after December 31, 2013. However, experts from Netcraft noticed that, on January 23, a newly released SSL certificate issued […]
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