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Cryptocurrency rumor mongers are likely to be dancing today as Amazon has successfully filed a patent for a Bitcoin-styled Proof-of-Work system. But don’t get ahead of yourself, it doesn’t look like the Seattle-based ecommerce giant will be accepting Bitcoin for payments.
Opera will soon be adding native support for the TRON blockchain in its cryptocurrency-focused browser.
As enterprise infrastructure and advancements in technology grow businesses, encryption capabilities are accelerating to keep up. Yet, knowing which new technologies are going to take off is extremely difficult.
With Bitcoin (BTC) surging above 5,000 in recent weeks, traders might be wondering whether now is the time to get back into altcoins. I’ve written in the past that the market will likely be more critical of blockchain-based projects in the future. There are two reasons for this.
Brute force attacks on cryptography could take billions of years, which no one has to spare. Maybe you live in a country where rubber hose cryptography is, shall we say, frowned upon. Hacking a target's endpoint is an option, but what if you get caught? Better to use an attack that leaves no forensic traces behind.
The first rule of cryptography club is: never invent a cryptography system yourself. The second rule of cryptography club is: never implement a cryptography system yourself: many real-world holes are found in the implementation phase of a cryptosystem as well as in the design.
RSA Security is releasing software that incorporates into existing software from Microsoft and Netscape to protect local and remove files by dragging them into folders. They are also releasing a certificate server which reportedly is easier . . .
