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NEW by @lorenzofb: Jack Dorsey launched his new "secure" peer-to-peer messaging app Bitchat this week. But now Dorsey says the app wasn't tested for security issues before its launch... and researchers are already finding bugs.
ezcrypt v1.4.0 (easy file encryption tool) has been released.
It's a minor update that adds a convenient --test command and improves output handling during authentication errors.
(I also built ezcrypt for #riscv today, and it works perfectly on a Banana Pi BPI-F3)
For the first time ever researchers crack RSA and AES data encryption
quantum machines are closer than expected to threatening widely used cryptographic systems, including RSA and Advanced Encryption Standard (AES)
#encryption #DWave #RSA #AES #quantum #quantumcomputing #security #cybersecurity #science
Released ezcrypt v1.3.0 the other day. It's now got authenticated encryption (via #Poly1305) and a stronger ChaCha nonce (via #XChaCha20), so now it has tampering protection and all IVs are at least 128 bits.
Interesting development of ransomware, however I find the title misleading as AES-256 isn't really "stronger" than ChaCha20: https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/new-qilin-ransomware-encryptor-features-stronger-encryption-evasion/
A new Rust-based variant of the Qilin (Agenda) ransomware strain, dubbed 'Qilin.B,' has been spotted in the wild, featuring stronger encryption, better evasion from security tools, and the ability to disrupt data recovery mechanisms.
I felt that I needed a 100% unencumbered public domain tool for simple yet strong file encryption. So I committed some of the worst cryptography sins: I coded the tool in C, and didn't use any available cryptography library (rolled my own, based on available public domain code).
I'm very happy with the end result, though: https://codeberg.org/ezcrypt/ezcrypt
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