Target’s admission that encrypted PIN data was stolen and secured with 3DES encryption has experts concerned because of the age of the algorithm and the availability of stronger options. Target ...

The encryption protocol called Triple-Data Encryption Standard, or 3DES, is supposed to be unbreakable – at least not without a lot of computing time and power. Because of this, lots of contactless ...

Over the past few weeks, cracks have appeared in the cryptographic technologies on which organizations have long relied. These include the vulnerabilities in HTTPS-protected cookies and last week’s ...

I'm testing encrypting emails from Outlook 2010. I'm using self signed certs issued from our internal CA. The resulting encrypted emails are only showing that the encryption layer is 3DES. (By ...

The Data Encryption Standard (DES) is an algorithm used for encrypting computer data. It was developed in the 1970s by IBM with the support of the National Security Agency for the National Institute ...