News
Europol and National Crime Agency slam Meta over end to end encryption rollout
Meta helps bring together police chiefs… to slate Meta
News
Silly PuTTY: SSH client hit with key-stealing bug
The PuTTY terminal has been found to contain a vulnerability allowing for the exposure of security keys
Matrix
Matrix hits 115 million users, as founders look to add OpenID Connect, enterprise features
Major overhaul of the open source communications protocol and standard looms, amid steady user base growth
News
Signal aims to stop a quantum computer sliding into your DMs
"We are augmenting our existing cryptosystems such that an attacker must break both systems..."
privacy
Apple warns that scanning encrypted photos leads to a “dystopian dragnet”
"Scanning for one type of content, for instance, opens the door for bulk surveillance" says Apple's user privacy chief.
MongoDB
MongoDB takes “Queryable Encryption” wizardry GA -- say it has improved latency, useability
The set of client-side libraries and server-side code lets applications encrypt sensitive fields in documents, so they remain encrypted while the server processes them; clever...
encryption
The world’s first fully specified, end-to-end encryption standard just landed. That's big.
Here’s what you need to know about Messaging Layer Security (MLS) as it becomes an official standard in a move welcomed by AWS, Android, Cisco, Matrix and many more.
encryption
RFC 9420 aka Messaging Layer Security (MLS) – An Overview
MLS achieves its low complexity through the use of a binary tree. This means that the number of required operations and the payload size do not increase linearly with the group size but rather only logarithmically after a short warm-up period...
Featured
US agencies tells users to deploy 'independent encryption' across satellite comms. It's not that easy.
Good luck with that packet loss...
Cybersecurity
Messaging Layer Security is coming of age in good news for privacy lovers
It's not finished yet, but MLS being deployed by Wire is good news...
Enterprise IT
A quantum-proof network is coming to London within months
BT and Toshiba are set to launch the world’s first commercial trial of a quantum network infrastructure. The landmark network will securely connect sites in London’s Docklands, the City and the M4 Corridor. The network will support quantum key distribution (QKD) -- a technology the two have been
Cybersecurity
Ellison Anne Williams on demystifying the Homomorphic Encryption landscape
HE libraries provide the basic cryptographic components, but it takes software engineering and enterprise...