In honor of DEFCON, this week we’re looking at some cryptography and reverse engineering projects over at Hackaday.io Every hacker loves a hardware puzzle, and [Tom] has created a tool to make those ...

A debate has been raging for some time about whether hardware is more secure than software. This story should provide plenty of fuel for debate. A few years ago, something called White Box ...

At Rambus, we often receive RFIs, RFPs and RFQs for security silicon IP cores to be used in our customer’s next semiconductor product. Such requests often contain a long shopping list of required ...

When that break occurs, the mathematics behind the code moves instantly. Organizations, however, do not move so fast.

At the core of this scholarly book is a dissection of bitcoin's biggest achievement. That is the transmission of value over the internet, an inherently insecure channel, without any reliance on a ...

In 1994, the computer scientist Peter Shor discovered that if quantum computers were ever invented, they would decimate much of the infrastructure used to protect information shared online. That ...

Members can download this article in PDF format. In our day-to-day lives, the use of cryptography is everywhere. For example, we use it to securely send passwords over vast networks for online ...