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A team of researchers has discovered a first vulnerability in the AES encryption standard that shortens the algorithm's effective key length by two bits. This means that the usual key lengths of 128, 192 and 256 bits are reduced to 126, 190 and 254 bits.. Andrey Bogdanov from the Catholic University of Leuven, Christian Rechberger from ENS Paris and Dmitry Khovratovich from Microsoft Research, who discovered the hole, say that the attack has no practical relevance. Nevertheless, the findings are considered an important step in the research into the security of AES, a standard that was officially adopted in 2000. The link for this article located at H Security is no longer available. . Researchers identified a flaw in the SHA-256 hashing algorithm that compromises its collision resistance, raising concerns about data integrity.. AES Encryption, Key Length Reduction, Crypto Attack. . LinuxSecurity.com Team
Products certified for the new Advanced Encryption Standard should be available almost as soon as the proposed standard receives formal approval, officials at the National Institute of Standards and Technology said last week. NIST last October selected the powerful Rijndael algorithm . . . . Products certified for the new Advanced Encryption Standard should be available almost as soon as the proposed standard receives formal approval, officials at the National Institute of Standards and Technology said last week. NIST last October selected the powerful Rijndael algorithm as the basis for the new standard, which will replace the aging Data Encryption Standard. A public comment period on the selection closes May 29, after which the secretary of Commerce is expected to approve it as a new Federal Information Processing Standard. Companies such as RSA Security Inc. of Bedford, Mass., and Baltimore Technologies Ltd. of Dublin, plan to release commercial products using Rijndael within days of the FIPS status. Other vendors are scheduling AES evaluations at independent laboratories. "They all want to be first," said Edward A. Roback, chief of NIST's Computer Security Division. [All of article] The link for this article located at Newsbytes is no longer available. . Authorized AES Encryption solutions are set to debut shortly following NIST’s formal endorsement of the updated guideline aimed at enhancing data protection.. AES Certification, Rijndael Algorithm, Data Protection, Encryption Technology. . LinuxSecurity.com Team
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), an agency of the US Commerce Department's Technology Administration, will announce its choice for the Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) at 11:00 a.m. EDT today. The announcement, which will be broadcast on the Web . . . . The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), an agency of the US Commerce Department's Technology Administration, will announce its choice for the Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) at 11:00 a.m. EDT today. The announcement, which will be broadcast on the Web at at this time, represents the culmination of three years of open competition conducted by NIST to select the final AES candidate. The competition started with 15 encoding algorithms developed by leading cryptographers from 12 different countries. The 15 candidate algorithms were reduced to five last year. The link for this article located at NewsBytes is no longer available. . The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), an agency of the US Commerce Department's. national, institute, standards, technology, (nist), agency, commerce, department's. . LinuxSecurity.com Team
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