The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is proposing that the Data Encryption Standard (DES), a popular encryption algorithm, lose its certification for use in software products sold ...

Some people are hoping the new year brings a new level of agreement on encryption standards used by federal agencies. Vendors are awaiting a request for proposals from the Homeland Security Department ...

In updating its point-to-point encryption standard, the PCI Security Standards Council says the resulting simplified validation process for component and software providers will result in more ...

comment The Data Encryption Standard, or DES, was a mid-'70s brainchild of the National Bureau of Standards: the first modern, public, freely available encryption algorithm. For over two decades, DES ...

FILE - In this Tuesday, March 3, 2009 file photo German Chancellor Angela Merkel holds a cell phone with a photo of her on the screen during her opening walk at the CeBIT in Hanover, northern Germany.