A number of you have e-mailed in to report that the Advanced Encryption Standard (aka, AES) encryption appears to be compromised (<i>andy fat bastard</i> was first, so he wins). The issue is whether ...

Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) will now automatically encrypt all new objects added on buckets on the server side, using AES-256 by default. While the server-side encryption system has been ...

I'm in the process of migrating an FTP server running vsftpd 2.0.5 on Solaris 10 x86 to vsftpd 2.2.2 on CentOS 6.4 x86_64. Part of the reason for migration is the ...

The federal government’s recent decision to adopt the Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) for securing sensitive information will trigger a move from the aging Data Encryption Standard (DES) in the ...

In the previous blog post, “Embedded Security Using Cryptography”, we looked at how cryptography can be used for securing assets in embedded systems and ensure confidentiality, integrity and ...