Add Shattered once in the Google app and our stories show up in your news suggestions. SHA-256 stands for Secure Hash Algorithm 256-bit. It belongs to the SHA-2 family, a set of hash functions ...

I saw that Microsoft is phasing out SHA-1 support as of Jan. 1, 2016, but nearly all of the production Web servers on the Internet still use it, including ours. In the wake of Heartbleed, is it time ...

SHA-256 produces a fixed 256-bit output from an input of any size, and Bitcoin applies it twice to block data. Ethereum chose Keccak-256 over standard SHA-3 because Ethereum adopted the original ...

Bringing to a close a five-year selection process, the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has selected the successor to the encryption algorithm that is used today to secure ...

Less than two months after a ban came into effect for new SSL/TLS certificates signed with the weak SHA-1 hashing algorithm, exemptions are already starting to take shape. Mozilla announced Wednesday ...