SALT LAKE CITY--(BUSINESS WIRE)--New research from Venafi® Labs shows that 35 percent of the world’s websites are still using insecure SHA-1 certificates. This is despite the fact that leading browser ...

The SHA-1 algorithm, one of the first widely used methods of protecting electronic information, has reached the end of its useful life, according to security experts at the National Institute of ...

The National Institute of Standards and Technology retired one of the first widely used cryptographic algorithms, citing vulnerabilities that make further use inadvisable, Thursday. NIST recommended ...

Fifteen-year-old Peter Schmidt-Nielsen spent only a month working on his submission, but he thinks he’s come up with something “unusual and new.” Never mind that he’s up against some of the most ...

In other news, a company migrating off SHA1 algorithm moves into the great big world of 32-bit computing. because it was "just weakened" 5 years ago, so "obviously" there was no urgency to start ...

Less than two months after a ban came into effect for new SSL/TLS certificates signed with the weak SHA-1 hashing algorithm, exemptions are already starting to take shape. Mozilla announced Wednesday ...