Cryptography News
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 to 365 million users of Telegram by the end of October. Earlier ...
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 – 5.3 Linux kernels and comes with a list of changes. What’s new ...
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 digitally sign its Free Basics by Facebook app has been compromised, and ...
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 City Douma). For the first time ever, Russia will use Internet voting ...
Interstellar is developing Slingshot, a 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 blockchain architecture with a focus on privacy, security, and safety named Slingshot ...
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 key initiatives mitigating harmful practices like fingerprinting and cryptomining. Yesterday, Mozilla announced ...
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 to give customers control over their encryption keys used for encrypting and ...
IBM announces the launch of Blockchain World Wire, a 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 by U.S. dollars and cryptocurrency to make near real-time cross border financial ...
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 is a research associate at the University of Hamburg. FOSDEM is a ...
Introducing CT-Wasm, a 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 of which are shared in their paper: CT-Wasm: Type-Driven Secure Cryptography for ...
