The manufacturer has offered the smart-card which authenticates it's user biometrically (using a fingerprint). This is an additional protection level, which combines "what user has" (smartcard), ...
The researchers have demonstrated the collision in hashes of two real-world files. While the files, as written, should be prepared in a special way before hash calculation, MD5 is hardly a reliable ...
Various authentication schemes, that rely on human's image recognition and memorizing capabilities are known for certain time. The user can select several pictures from the given list, or build the ...
The half-serious article suggest the best way to write insecure code. It would be fun to release the software ("Hello World" would be the best, of course) that follows all those rules.
Traditional asymmetric cryptography, developed in 1970's, has some disadvantages, such as large key size (1024 bit is the lowest secure length, but it's also 128 bytes, quite a few to keep) and slow ...
Microsoft has published an article which reviews new cryptography and PKI features, added into Vista and Windows Server 2008. This includes several important things.
