The Ethereum Foundation forms a dedicated post-quantum security team, announces $2M in prizes, and launches multi-client devnets for quantum resistance.

Security firm Mandiant has released a database that allows any administrative password protected by Microsoft’s NTLM.v1 hash ...

The math of data structures helps us understand how different storage systems come with different trade-offs between resources such as time and memory.

1 Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, United States 2 Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, United States The specificity of the immune response is critical ...

Hashing transforms data into a fixed-length cryptographic fingerprint that ensures integrity and authenticity. Every block in a blockchain contains its own hash and the previous block’s hash, forming ...

Abstract: Key-value lookup functions have been widely applied to network applications, including FIBs, load balancers, and content distributions. Two key performance requirements of a lookup algorithm ...

The quest to make biometric data private and secure has led to the development of biometric hashing. Hashing is a one-way process in which an algorithm called a cryptographic hash function takes an ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Sometime in the fall of 2021, Andrew Krapivin, an undergraduate at Rutgers University, encountered a paper that would change his life.

After looking at the recent GoLang update for curiosity, I noticed one standout item. GoLang now uses Swiss Tables for mapping. I'd not heard of this algorithm, so it took a bit of searching to come ...