The U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has vigorously denied that the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) tampered with NIST’s process of vetting and choosing encryption ...

National Institute of Standards and Technology says it will continue to create the "strongest possible" standards, following reports of surveillance-related meddling by the National Security Agency.

Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) is a widely adopted and symmetric encryption algorithm standard used while securing data. It is a cryptographic standard, which was established by the US National ...

The National Security Agency claims that the encryption standards it's developing will be so tough that even its own hackers won't be able to crack them. Okay! Reading time 2 minutes The U.S. has been ...

PISCATAWAY, N.J.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--December 19, 2007--The IEEE has approved two new standards regarding the encryption of data on computer hard drives and other storage devices. The first standard, ...

The U.S. Commerce Department has approved a new, stronger data-encryption standard intended to replace an aging standard first adopted in 1977. The Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) is intended to ...

Following revelations about the National Security Agency’s (NSA) covert influence on computer security standards, the National Institute of Standards and Technology, or NIST, announced earlier this ...

A research team has demonstrated that the two most common email encryption standards are vulnerable to attacks. Their attack, referred to as Efail, proved successful in 25 out of 35 tested email ...