Man pages (or perldoc pages in this case) are not the usual places to look for security holes, but that is apparently where two researchers found a whole class of problems for web application ...

While not directly related to programming, I thought that this would be the best place to get the answer to this question. We are looking into some backup software (data de-duplication is all the rage ...

Cryptographic hash functions are widely used in many aspects of security, such as digital signatures and data integrity checks. The short digital fingerprint generated from an electronic file, message ...

Despite years of warnings to remove it due to potentially exploitable weaknesses, the SHA-1 hash algorithm has been broken by researchers who have developed the first practical technique for ...

There is a fair amount of confusion surrounding the recent research resulting in the ability to create bogus SSL certificates. The research combined a weakness in the certificate generation process ...

Both "encryption" and "hashing" are technologies that convert data into a different form.However, there is a major difference ...

Security researchers have achieved the first real-world collision attack against the SHA-1 hash function, producing two different PDF files with the same SHA-1 signature. This shows that the algorithm ...

Attacks on the SHA-1 hashing algorithm just got a lot more dangerous last week with the discovery of a cheap “chosen-prefix collision attack,” a more practical version of the SHA-1 collision attack ...