Security Boulevard

Carelessness versus craftsmanship in cryptography

Two popular AES libraries, aes-js and pyaes, “helpfully” provide a default IV in their AES-CTR API, leading to a large number of key/IV reuse bugs. These bugs potentially affect thousands of ...
GitHub

Offline Electron app for AES-256-CBC file encryption/decryption

Securely encrypt any file (AES-256-CBC via WebCrypto) and export an encrypted file Generate and securely copy your Base64-encoded key and IV Decrypt previously encrypted files locally with the correct ...
IEEE

Efficient and Unbounded Public-key Encryption with Keyword Search Based on Arithmetic Span Programs in Cloud Storage

Abstract: Public-key Encryption with Keyword Search (PEKS) enables users to search encrypted data stored on an untrusted server without revealing any sensitive information. However, existing PEKS ...
IEEE

Encryption-Decryption-Based Bounded Filtering for 2-D Systems Under Dynamic Event-Triggered Mechanism

Abstract: This paper investigates the bounded filtering problem for two-dimensional (2-D) discrete systems with encryption-decryption mechanism (EDM) and dynamic event-triggered mechanism (ETM).
Ars Technica

How to encrypt your PC’s disk without giving the keys to Microsoft

In early 2025, Forbes reports, investigators at the FBI served Microsoft with a warrant seeking the BitLocker encryption recovery keys for several laptops it believed held evidence of fraud in Guam’s ...
The Verge

Microsoft handed the government encryption keys for customer data

Privacy advocates are worried about the precedent this sets and the potential for abuse. Privacy advocates are worried about the precedent this sets and the potential ...