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AES-256-GCM vs Ascon: NIST Standard Cuts Code 2 Ways [2026]

NIST finalized Ascon in Aug 2025. We compare AES-256-GCM vs Ascon-AEAD128 on security, speed, and IoT hardware fit.

What is protected by "public keys" and "private keys"? Using the My Number Card as a starting point to clarify the differences between encryption and digital signatures

On September 11, 2026, the Digital Agency announced that the government's common business environment, the "Government ...

SSH is more than just 'encrypted login'—connecting key exchange, authentication, and configuration files with diagrams

When you run ssh user@server, you log into your usual server.However, the moment a connection fails, those familiar files ...
BIOENGINEER

Chaos-Based Encryption With Dynamic Keys Falls to Chosen-Ciphertext Attack

Researchers at Guangdong University of Technology have broken a chaos-based image cryptosystem whose dynamic key was designed ...

Mathematical model makes image encryption more resilient to real-world uncertainty

In today's digital world, everything from medical images and financial records to personal photos and secure communications ...
Military Embedded Systems

When the vehicle becomes the vault: Closing the data-at-rest security gap in military vehicle and tactical systems

Protecting military systems where critical information resides requires extending cybersecurity beyond traditional network defense toward architectures designed to preserve classified data after ...
BIOENGINEER

Neural Networks Meet Chaos: New Image Encryption Scheme Promises Speed and Security

Researchers in Iran have developed CNNHSIE, an image encryption algorithm that combines hyperchaotic systems with a VGG16 ...

50 Years Of RSA: Preparing For The Internet’s Next Cryptographic Transition

RSA succeeded beyond what its creators could have imagined. But as we approach its 50th anniversary, we are also approaching ...