The system employs HMAC-SHA256 (Hash-based Message Authentication Code using SHA-256) for license integrity verification. SHA-256 refers to the Secure Hash Algorithm producing 256-bit hash values (see ...

Microsoft is rolling out hardware-accelerated BitLocker in Windows 11 to address growing performance and security concerns by ...

Quantum computing represents a major threat to encryption, and the inflection point may be less than five years away.

The BitLocker encryption method and Cipher strength you set as default is only applied when you turn on BitLocker for a drive. Any changes you make will not affect a drive already encrypted by ...

What is 256-Bit Encryption? A 256-bit encryption is associated with the 256-bit key used in different cryptographic algorithms to encrypt data. With 256-bit key encryption, the data is made unreadable ...

Quantum computer and Bitcoin. Here is a hot series that is not about to fade, especially after IBM’s latest experiment. IBM has just succeeded in breaking a 6-bit ECC key, the same type of key used to ...

IBM’s 133-qubit quantum computer cracked a toy 6-bit ECC key, showcasing progress but posing no threat to Bitcoin or Ethereum yet. Bitcoin and Ethereum rely on ECC-256, far beyond current capabilities ...

Most people don’t think about it daily, but data encryption is vital to our lives. Secure encryption technology is used to protect the data on your mobile device, laptop, hard drive and the cloud, as ...