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CNSA 2.0 and Quantum Resistant Encryption Algorithms
The NSA released the Commercial National Security Algorithm Suite 2.0, detailing future quantum resistant algorithm requirements.
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atsec attended the 20th International Conference on Applied Cryptography and Network Security (ACNS)
Last week, employees from atsec Germany and atsec Italy attended the 20th International Conference on Applied Cryptography and Network Security (ACNS) in Rome, Italy. As the name implies, ACNS highlights academic and industry research in the areas of applied cryptography and network security. Accepted papers are published in…
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Distinguishing encrypted from non-encrypted data
Our colleague Quentin Gouchet, together with Eric Järpe, authored an article on distinguishing encrypted from non-encrypted data. We invite you to read the article here. Introduction:The discrimination of encrypted data from other kinds of data is of interest in many areas of application. For instance for making other…
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The Impact of TLS 1.3 and ACVTS on FIPS Certification Testing
by Marcos Portnoi, Stephan Mueller, and Viktoria Meyerhoff In 2018, the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) published RFC 8446, “Transport Layer Security (TLS) Protocol Version 1.3”, a new standard for the latest version of TLS. TLS is the successor of SSL (Secure Sockets Layer), which was developed by…
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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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atsec presented at InnoTech Austin 2019
atsec US Corporate Vice President and Lab Director, Yi Mao, presented “Crypto Testing Leading to Better Security” at InnoTech Austin 2019. Through many examples, Dr. Mao showed the audience that cryptography is the hard core providing data confidentiality, integrity and authenticity. Cryptographic algorithms are used to encrypt sensitive…
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First Commercial ACVP Testing with Regular Three-party Setup Completed
The atsec Automated Cryptographic Validation Protocol (ACVP) tool set demonstrated that ACVT is fully production-ready with the completion of the ACVP test run of 3,529 test vector sets managed by 329 test sessions. The testing marks the first successful production test run of ACVT with the three-party approach…
