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BREAKING NEWS: c@tsec information security Unveils Revolutionary Quantum Computer
Austin, TX: In a groundbreaking announcement today, c@tsec information security, a subsidiary of atsec information security, and the leader in quantum computing technology, proudly unveils its latest innovation: the Quantum PurrProcessor™. The Quantum PurrProcessor™ operates on a revolutionary principle, harnessing the power of Schrödinger’s Cat to perform computations…
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XDRGB – Random Bit Generator using any XOF
Resulting from a joint collaboration between John Kelsey (NIST), Stefan Lucks (Bauhaus-Universität Weimar, Germany) and Stephan Müller (atsec information security), a new deterministic random bit generator (DRBG) is published. The XDRBG was publicly presented at the 30th Fast Software Encryption Conference 2024 in Leuven, Belgium. The XDRBG uses…
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Crypto Module Bootcamp 2024
atsec information security hosted a free day-long hybrid event on the Concordia University campus in Austin, TX. With 330 registered attendees, both in-person and remote.
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Happy Valentine’s Day!
Happy Valentine’s Day to our customers, our partners, colleagues and communities around the world that we work with.
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Happy Birthday, atsec!
As always on the 11th of January atsec celebrates its birthday.This year it is the 24th! As they say: time flies when you’re doing IT security!Our best wishes and thanks to all of the contributors: our customers, our partners, and our colleagues.
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A FIPS 140-3 compliant hybrid KEM algorithm
n addition to the sole use of Kyber KEM, a hybrid mechanism using X25519 can be devised that acts as a drop-in replacement for Kyber KEM.
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Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year from atsec
The whole atsec team wishes our colleagues, customers, partners and suppliers a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.
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PQC: Kyber and Dilithium – State of the (Draft) Standards
On August 24 2023 NIST published the first drafts of: On November 15 2023 NIST announced that the three algorithms will be available for testing at the ACVP Demo service. During the course of the development of both Kyber and Dilithium reference implementations, NIST developers reached out to…