DES encryption leaves SIM cards vulnerable to exploitation A German security researcher has cracked the outdated security used by older SIM cards.

A few examples can quickly illustrate how this all works. The DES encryption algorithm uses a 56-bit key, which means that there are roughly 72 millions of billions of keys available.

DES (Data Encryption Standard) is a cipher that is used to encrypt information that is used in many networking protocols.

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is proposing that the Data Encryption Standard (DES), a popular encryption algorithm, lose its certification for use in software products ...

Did you know that the vast majority of calls carried out on the 3.5 billion GSM connections in the world today are protected by a 21-year old 64-bit encryption algorithm? You should now, given ...

Microsoft has now announced that Cipher DES, which has long been considered insecure, will be removed from Windows in September.

In a move to shed light on the vulnerability of GSM wireless networks, encryption expert Karsten Nohl, with the aid of 24 fellow hackers, was … ...