Encryption

A third of you slackers out there still aren't using HTTPS by default

And it's really bad news for EV cert vendors in Top 1 Million report

Security09 Dec 2021 | 33

UK data watchdog calls for end-to-end encryption across video chat apps by default

Then backtracks and tells El Reg: 'It's not a formal opinion'

Security29 Oct 2021 | 30

How a glitch in the Matrix led to apps potentially exposing encrypted chats

Forget Agent Smith, we want to see Neo fighting implementation bugs

Security13 Sep 2021 | 7

WhatsApp to offer end-to-end encrypted backups in iCloud, Google Drive with user-managed keys

Funny how 'privacy-focused' Apple and Google haven't managed that

Security11 Sep 2021 | 33

UK.gov is launching an anti-Facebook encryption push. Don't think of the children: Think of the nuances and edge cases instead

Opinion You can't reduce such a vital issue to concern over paedophiles and terrorists

Security08 Sep 2021 | 133

NSA: We 'don't know when or even if' a quantum computer will ever be able to break today's public-key encryption

Then again, it would say that

Security01 Sep 2021 | 69

Quantum Key Distribution: Is it as secure as claimed and what can it offer the enterprise?

Feature Er... let's just ask the experts boffins

Security06 Jul 2021 | 37

GPRS-era mobile data encryption algorithm GEA/1 was 'weak by design', still lingers in today's phones

Just in case you travel back in time to 1998

Security17 Jun 2021 | 22

We've been shown time and again that strong encryption puts crims behind bars, so why do politicos hate it?

Column If we trust it, crooks will too – meaning Plod can get their kiloscrote nab

Security14 Jun 2021 | 84

Australian cops, FBI created backdoored chat app, told crims it was secure – then snooped on 9,000 users' plots

Hundreds of arrests already in Oz, details of European and US ops to be revealed soon

Security08 Jun 2021 | 97

Military infosec SNAFUs: What WhatsApp and bears in the woods can teach us

Column One can’t spell shit without IT, but for Pete's sake it doesn't need to be in your endpoints

Security07 Jun 2021 | 20

Blessed are the cryptographers, labelling them criminal enablers is just foolish

Column Preserving privacy is hard. I know because when I tried, I quickly learned not to play with weapons

Security12 May 2021 | 171

Half of Q1's malware traffic observed by Sophos was TLS encrypted, hiding inside legit requests to legit services

Brit infosec outfit points to nefarious deeds within Discord, Google systems

Security21 Apr 2021 | 15

Won't somebody please think of the children!!! UK to mount fresh assault on end-to-end encryption in Facebook

Change the record, nobody's fooled by this now

Security19 Apr 2021 | 122

UK terror law reviewer calls for expanded police powers to imprison people who refuse to hand over passwords

Cops should be exempted from regulatory safeguards, says lawyer

Security29 Mar 2021 | 100

Encrypted phones biz Sky Global shuts up shop after CEO indictment, police raids on users in Europe

Tell us more about those services you say were stealing your brand

Security19 Mar 2021 | 23

Belgian cops crack down on encrypted phone network Sky ECC in 200 overnight raids as firm denies criminal ties

Shades of the Encrochat bust all over again

Security10 Mar 2021 | 24

Nespresso smart cards hacked to provide infinite coffee after someone wasn't too perky about security

Older commercial machines rely on insecure Mifare Classic payments

Security04 Feb 2021 | 78

Microsoft Edge goes homomorphic: Nobody will see your credentials... but you'll need to sign in to use it

Has your password been pwned? MS browser will tell you

Security22 Jan 2021 | 31

Right-to-repair warriors seek broader DMCA exemptions to bypass digital locks on the stuff we own

Analysis Every three years, people try to patch a poorly crafted copyright law

Personal Tech15 Dec 2020 | 36

Court orders encrypted email biz Tutanota to build a backdoor in user's mailbox, founder says 'this is absurd'

Plus: Yet another UK.gov bod demands end-to-end encryption is broken

Security08 Dec 2020 | 75

Marine archaeologists catch a break on the bottom of the Baltic Sea: A 75-year-old Enigma Machine

Attempting to save aquatic life trapped in old fishing nets, divers uncover a hidden treasure

Science04 Dec 2020 | 106

China bans encryption exports – including quantum and key management tech

And don’t you dare try to get a fax machine into the Middle Kingdom

Science04 Dec 2020 | 32

UK infoseccer launches petition asking government not to backdoor encryption

Sign up and make your voice heard

Security27 Nov 2020 | 43

End-to-end encryption? In Android's default messaging app? Don't worry, nobody else noticed either

Analysis RCS throws the dice

Security20 Nov 2020 | 41

EncroChat hack evidence wasn't obtained illegally, High Court of England and Wales rules – trial judges will decide whether to admit it

Blow to UK suspects in wake of Franco-Dutch investigation

Security13 Nov 2020 | 20

Swiss spies knew about Crypto AG compromise – and kept it from govt overseers for nearly 30 years

Wider government only told of encryption machine nobbling a year after it ended

Security12 Nov 2020 | 81

Zoom finally adds end-to-end encryption for all, for free – though there are caveats

Perhaps we can talk about extra security and compromises honestly

Security27 Oct 2020 | 15

Will there be no end to govt attempts to break encryption? Hand over your data or the kiddies get it, threaten Five Eyes spies

Column The Great Unicorn Prayer of security services: Stay secure, but - ya know - give us backdoors

Security19 Oct 2020 | 57

Remember when Zoom was rumbled for lousy crypto? Six months later it says end-to-end is ready

But it’s a tech preview and requires opt-in for every meeting

Security15 Oct 2020 | 17

Japan starts work on global quantum crypto network

Toshiba leads effort that aspires to run 100 quantum cryptographic devices for 10,000 users by 2024

Security29 Jul 2020 | 8

A match made in SEV-en: Google touts Confidential VMs using AMD's Epyc on-the-fly memory encryption

Updated A little something to keep determined snoopers out, in theory

SaaS14 Jul 2020 | 5

You may be distracted by the pandemic but FYI: US Senate panel OK's backdoors-by-the-backdoor EARN IT Act

Proposed Section 230 shake-up passes committee stage with amendments

Security06 Jul 2020 | 71

Euro police forces infiltrated encrypted phone biz – and now 'criminal' EncroChat users are being rounded up

Continental capers lead to 750 UK arrests

Security02 Jul 2020 | 140

Zoom to offer proper end-to-end encryption to free vid-chat accounts – not just paid-up bods – once you verify your phone number...

Just in case the Feds take an interest in your calls

Security17 Jun 2020 | 4

Remember that backdoor in Juniper gear? Congress sure does – even if networking biz wishes it would all go away

US lawmakers demand answers in quest against Feds-only access points

Networks10 Jun 2020 | 31

Lettuce Encrypt, Encrypt We Must: Hobby projects change name after Let's Encrypt fires off trademark complaints

Updated One's 'best served cold with ranch and carrots', the other turns to 'Yoda Speak'

Security10 Jun 2020 | 22

Got $50k spare? Then you can crack SHA-1 – so OpenSSH is deprecating flawed hashing algo in a 'near-future release'

Updated The price will only go down

Security28 May 2020 | 26

Attorney General: We didn't need Apple to crack terrorist's iPhones – tho we still want iGiant to do it in future

Feds gain access to military base shooter's mobes using outside tools

Security18 May 2020 | 46

Signal sends smoke, er, signal: If Congress cripples anonymous speech with EARN IT Act, we'll shut US ops

Secure messaging app says it could not continue operations in America under proposed law

Security09 Apr 2020 | 68

Watch: Rare Second World War footage of Bletchley Park-linked MI6 intelligence heroes emerges, shared online

Vid A glimpse of life at Whaddon Hall

Security04 Apr 2020 | 42

Don't be fooled, experts warn, America's anti-child-abuse EARN IT Act could burn encryption to the ground

Wait, a proposed law tackling the sexual abuse of kids and they name it... the EARN IT Act? Seriously?

Security06 Mar 2020 | 100

'Unfixable' boot ROM security flaw in millions of Intel chips could spell 'utter chaos' for DRM, file encryption, etc

Although exploitation is like shooting a lone fish in a tiny barrel 1,000 miles away

Security05 Mar 2020 | 146

Departing MI5 chief: Break chat app crypto for us, kthxbai

Sir Andrew Parker also claims UK spies are not doing bulk surveillance

Security26 Feb 2020 | 58

Apple drops a bomb on long-life HTTPS certificates: Safari to snub new security certs valid for more than 13 months

Keep your crypto below 398 days after September 1 and you're all good

Security20 Feb 2020 | 132

Remember the Clipper chip? NSA's botched backdoor-for-Feds from 1993 still influences today's encryption debates

Enigma We'll laugh at today's mandated holes in the same way we laugh at those from 25 years ago

Security27 Jan 2020 | 66

Unlocking news: We decrypt those cryptic headlines about Scottish cops bypassing smartphone encryption

Vid New perspective on FBI, Interpol demands for backdoors

Security17 Jan 2020 | 133

If at first you don't succeed, pry, pry again: Feds once again demand Apple unlock encrypted iPhones in yet another terrorism case

Comment FBI, open up!

Security08 Jan 2020 | 63

Internet of crap (encryption): IoT gear generates easy-to-crack keys

Poor entropy in embedded devices leading to weaker certificates: study

Edge + IoT16 Dec 2019 | 18

Disgrace of Base: Scammy hordes force Keybase to end cryptocoin giveaway

It's Lumen awful: Space Drop halted due to excessive douchebaggery

Security12 Dec 2019 | 3

It's time you were T0RTT a lesson: Here's how you could build a better Tor, say boffins

Uni brains pitch smart math for speeding up establishment of circuits in anonymizing onion network

Security12 Dec 2019 | 16

Google Chrome will check for leaked credentials every time you sign in anywhere

Double-encrypted. That said, if you're worried about over-sharing, what are you doing on Chrome?

Security11 Dec 2019 | 47

Interpol: Strong encryption helps online predators. Build backdoors

Multinational cop agency reportedly set to issue statement

Security18 Nov 2019 | 205

Euro ISP club: Sure, weaken encryption. It'll only undermine security for everyone, morons

UK, Oz and US pleas to Facebook given short shrift

Software08 Oct 2019 | 81

Here we go again: US govt tells Facebook to kill end-to-end encryption for the sake of the children

Uncle Sam calls on tech giants to open up platforms for government snooping

Security04 Oct 2019 | 169

Kaspersky warns of encryption-busting Reductor malware

Infection manipulates browsers to snoop on TLS comms

Security03 Oct 2019 | 19