Security Boulevard

Carelessness versus craftsmanship in cryptography

Two popular AES libraries, aes-js and pyaes, “helpfully” provide a default IV in their AES-CTR API, leading to a large number of key/IV reuse bugs. These bugs potentially affect thousands of ...
IEEE

A Faster and Robust Artificial Neural Network Based Image Encryption Technique With Improved SSIM

Abstract: A robust image encryption process is still one of the most challenging tasks in image security owing to massive degree and sensitivity nature of information in the form of pixels. The ...
IEEE

Efficiency Optimization Techniques in Privacy-Preserving Federated Learning With Homomorphic Encryption: A Brief Survey

Abstract: Federated learning (FL) offers distributed machine learning on edge devices. However, the FL model raises privacy concerns. Various techniques, such as homomorphic encryption (HE), ...
The Verge

Microsoft handed the government encryption keys for customer data

Privacy advocates are worried about the precedent this sets and the potential for abuse. Privacy advocates are worried about the precedent this sets and the potential ...