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Martin Rupp (guest): 20. February 2020
Mobile banking and payment app security is deeply linked to their ability to prevent attackers from tampering with them.
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Martin Rupp (guest): 18. February 2020
Key Blocks have been invented as a standard way for protecting the integrity of symmetric cryptographic keys and for identifying what the keys can be...
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In June 2019, the PCI Security Standards Council issued an information supplement titled PCI PIN Security Requirement 18-3 – Key Blocks, which...
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Edlyn Teske: 24. January 2020
The first practical chosen-prefix collision attack on SHA-1 was announced in January 2020 by researchers Gaëtan Leurent and Thomas Peyrin: “SHA-1 is...
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This article discusses recent warnings that a chosen-prefix collision attack on SHA-1 is now practical and cost-effective for attackers.
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Martin Rupp (guest): 21. January 2020
The ANSI X9.24-1-2017 norm details how symmetric cryptographic keys should be managed and handled by the relevant actors of the retail financial...
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FIPS 140 (“Federal Information Processing Standard”) is a series of security standards published by the U.S. government that specify security...
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In today’s cyber-world there is an ever-present risk of unauthorized access to all forms of data. Most at risk is financial and payment system data...
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A system's cryptographic protection against attacks and malicious penetration is determined by two factors: (1) the strength of the keys and the...