Announcing the $8,192 NIST Elliptic Curves Seeds Bounty
Announcing a $12,288 bounty (tripled to charity) for cracking the five seeds selected by the NSA in the '90s for the NIST elliptic curve standard.
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Apple's pending privacy clampdown drives desperate marketers to overwhelm domain database
Public Suffix List halts submissions from those seeking reprieve from iGiants rules Share Copy Marketers frantic to preserve their ad tracking capabilities in advance of Apples iOS 14.5 privacy restrictions have overwhelmed a volunteer-maintained database used to oversee domain names and improve web security. The Public Suffix List (PSL) is a Mozilla-founded, community-run project to provide a list of domain suffixes, from .com and .co.uk to things like github.io and pvt.k12.ma.us, that...
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Spanish banished: Google Chrome to snub Camerfirma for lax cert management
Mozilla meanwhile wants to continue compliance discussions with security certificate vendor Share Copy When Google Chrome 90 arrives in April, visitors to websites that depend on TLS server authentication certificates from AC Camerfirma SA, a digital certificate authority based in Madrid, Spain, will find that those sites no longer present the secure lock icon. Certificate authorities (CAs) are in the business of signing digital certificates to certify that those certs belong to the dom...
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