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Happy Birthday atsec!
Today atsec celebrates its 21st Birthday! We can finally get a pilot license, gamble at the casino and we won’t be mad when we get carded at the ICMC! We are happy to look back on more than two interesting decades and would like to thank our customers,…
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Holiday Greetings from atsec
Our colleagues from around the world wish you Happy and Healthy Holidays and a good start into 2021.
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Biometric e-Passports
by Richard Fant Figure 1: e-Passports issued by different countries In today’s climate of COVID-19, domestic travel has become difficult, and international travel almost impossible. Many US airlines now require their passengers to submit to a COVID-19 test within 24-48 hours prior to travel to prove the traveler…
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CST Newsletter September 2020
We invite you to take a look at our current newsletter that contains information on algorithm transitions, updates to the FIPS IG and announcements for FIPS 140-2 and FIPS 140-3.
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atsec’s 20 Year Anniversary
It was the beginning of January when I first heard about the new virus causing severe flu-like symptoms, such as upper respiratory infection, spreading throughout China. I started to worry about our China team. Nevertheless, we continued to plan for the global celebration of atsec’s 20th anniversary, assuming…
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atsec leading in Automated Cryptographic Validation Testing
With the sunset of the Cryptographic Algorithm Validation System (CAVS) at end of June 2020, algorithm testing for NIST and NIAP validations and evaluations must now be performed using the Automated Cryptographic Validation Testing System (ACVTS). The list of issued CAVP certificates using ACVTS (i.e. the certificates prefixed…
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Bye bye, CAVS tool, old friend…
Dear CAVS Tool, We want to congratulate you on years and years of dedicated service. Without you, algorithm testing would not have been what it is today, and we salute you for staying with us for so long. On June 30th you will finally get your well-deserved retirement.…
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CST Newsletter June 2020
We invite you to take a look at our current newsletter that contains information on algorithm transitions, updates to the FIPS IG and a breakdown of the changes in TEs from FIPS 140-2 to FIPS 140-3.
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Rise & Fall of MD5
by Richard FantThe RiseMD5 (message digest version 5) was developed in 1991 and is still very popular today, with a wide range of commercial and government applications. MD5 is used to generate hash values of passwords stored on a system as opposed to storing the passwords in plain…
