Security firm Mandiant has released a database that allows any administrative password protected by Microsoft’s NTLM.v1 hash ...

Astronaut Wang Haoze is out of the return capsule of the Shenzhou XIX crewed spaceship at the Dongfeng landing site in North China's Inner Mongolia autonomous region, April 30, 2025. [Photo/Xinhua] ...

Note: MD5 and CRC32 are included for compatibility and fast checksums only — do not use them for cryptographic security. You can pass multiple files or directories; each is processed in turn. A ...

Cryptography secures communication in banking, messaging, and blockchain. Good algorithms (AES, RSA, ECC, SHA-2/3, ChaCha20) are secure, efficient, and widely trusted. Bad algorithms (DES, MD5, SHA-1, ...

The National Institute of Standards and Technology has announced a new cryptography standard that's available for immediate use. The standard is designed to assure the protection of authenticated ...

The quest to make biometric data private and secure has led to the development of biometric hashing. Hashing is a one-way process in which an algorithm called a cryptographic hash function takes an ...

Abstract: In information security, message authentication is an essential technique to verify that received messages come from the alleged source and have not been altered. A key element of ...

Quantum computing is on the horizon, promising to solve complex problems beyond the capabilities of classical computers. But for Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies, which rely on today’s cryptographic ...

While passwords remain the first line of defense for protecting user accounts against unauthorized access, the methods for creating strong passwords and protecting them are continually evolving. For ...

A breakdown of what type of risks quantum computing poses to Bitcoin, and how worried users of the network should be. In the early 2020s, quantum computing hit the public spotlight as a potential ...