Category: cryptography

China passes law regulating data encryption

Post author By Randall
Post date October 27, 2019
Categories In China, cryptography, data, encryption, gear, Internet, Politics, Privacy, regulation, Security, Tech

[ad_1] The law requires that all state secrets be stored and transmitted using “core and common” encryption, and that institutions working on cryptography have to establish “management systems” that guarantee the security of that encryption. Those managers won’t be allowed to ask private encryption developers to turn over “exclusive” info like source code, though, and […]

Cloudflare wants to protect the internet from quantum computing

Post author By Randall
Post date June 21, 2019
Categories In circl, cloudflare, cryptography, data, encryption, hackers, Internet, open-source, post-quantum, Privacy, quantum computing, Security, Tech, tomorrow

[ad_1] While Cloudflare hasn’t solved the problems that cryptography raises for encryption, it’s been trying to “quantum-proof” TLS, the encryption technology formerly called SSL, which protects connections between web browsers and servers. Cloudflare plans to continue this work, and it hopes that by sharing CIRCL, it will help other researchers prepare for a post-quantum world. […]