The world of Bitcoin and cryptocurrency has long been hailed as a revolutionary financial system, offering decentralized transactions and heightened ...

The product uses an algorithm that produces a digest (output value) that does not meet security expectations for a hash function that allows an adversary to reasonably determine the original input ...

While the last year or two have seen a number of proposals for covenant-proposing extensions to Bitcoin, there has always been a suspicion among experts that covenants may be possible without any ...

In the ever-evolving landscape of cybersecurity, where threats are becoming increasingly sophisticated and pervasive, traditional defenses alone are no longer sufficient to protect sensitive data.

This is a re-post of #10389, attempting to summarize the current state of the discussion since that issue had too many comments to still be useful. The soundness of functions like downcast relies on ...

A design flaw in the decades-old RADIUS authentication protocol allows attackers to take over network devices from a man-in-the-middle position by exploiting MD5 hash collisions. The “secure enough” ...

1 Department of Physics, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland 2 Space and Earth Observation Centre, Finnish Meteorological Institute, Helsinki, Finland Scientific computing has become ...

Abstract: Hash functions play a pivotal role in the field of cryptography, serving as a fundamental technique for ensuring data security. Moreover, cryptographic hash functions can be utilized to ...