Cryptography aficionados, say hello to a new hash algorithm backed by the National Institute for Standards and Technology (NIST). Dubbed Keccak (pronounced "catch-ack"), the secure hash algorithm, ...

The advent of quantum computing poses substantial risks to conventional cryptographic mechanisms, particularly hash-based authentication and zero-knowledge identification (ZKI) protocols, which are ...

Bringing to a close a five-year selection process, the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has selected the successor to the encryption algorithm that is used today to secure ...