Cryptography

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TON: Telegram’s decentralized blockchain network face mixed reactions from financial regulators as more information is needed

Telegram is now joining the blockchain league with Telegram Open Network (TON), Telegram’s blockchain network. TON will integrate blockchain payments…

5 years ago

zfs-0.8.2 releases with support for 2.6.32 – 5.3 Linux kernels and major bug fixes

Last week, the team behind ZFS released zfs-0.8.2, an advanced file system. This release comes with support for 2.6.32 -…

5 years ago

Cryptographic key of Facebook’s Free Basics app has been compromised

Last week, APK Mirror and Android Police owner Artem Russakovskii reported that a cryptographic key used by Facebook developers to…

5 years ago

Moscow’s blockchain-based internet voting system uses an encryption scheme that can be easily broken

Russia is looking forward to its September 2019 elections for the representatives at the Parliament of the city (the Moscow…

5 years ago

Interstellar is developing Slingshot, new Rust based blockchain architecture to support zero-knowledge smart contracts, and more

In September 2018, LightYear acquired Chain to form a combined company called Interstellar. The company is working on a new…

5 years ago

Mozilla adds protection against fingerprinting and Cryptomining scripts in Firefox Nightly and Beta

Last year, the company announced about adopting an approach to anti-tracking considering user data privacy. The company listed a few…

5 years ago

Slack launches Enterprise Key Management (EKM) to provide complete control over encryption keys

The work collaboration hub, Slack, yesterday, launched Slack Enterprise Key Management (EKM) for its enterprise customers. The feature is introduced…

5 years ago

IBM announces the launch of Blockchain World Wire, global blockchain network for cross-border payments

Yesterday, IBM launched its Blockchain World Wire, a global blockchain network for cross-border payments that will make use of Stablecoin…

5 years ago

FOSDEM 2019: Designing better cryptographic mechanisms to avoid pitfalls – Talk by Maximilian Blochberger

At FOSDEM 2019, Belgium, Maximilian Blochberger talked about preventing cryptographic pitfalls by avoiding mistakes while integrating cryptographic mechanisms correctly. Blochberger…

5 years ago

Introducing CT-Wasm, type-driven extension to WebAssembly for secure, in-browser cryptography

Researchers from the University of California and the University of Cambridge have come up with Constant-Time WebAssembly (CT-Wasm), the details…

5 years ago