Ars Technica

In public key authentication, why are the private keys used with the client and not the other way around?

I'm trying to understand how public key authentication works and with tools such as ChatGPT I'm able to resolve how it works; the server keeps a tab of "authorized" public keys and uses them to ...
Threat Post

Two NTP Key Authentication Vulnerabilities Patched

DHS warns of two symmetric key authentication vulnerabilities in the NTP protocol that were patched this week. NTP, the much maligned protocol abused in a number of high volume DDoS attacks a year ago ...
Ars Technica

Crypto signature-based authentication with symmetric cipher

I had this idea. Might be a good idea, might be a terrible idea. I'm no expert on security, but I wonder if any systems have ever done this? Typically, historically, authentication databases have ...
EDN

Subsystem Board for Secure Authentication Design

The Alcatraz (MAXREFDES34#) subsystem provides a reference design for securing Xilinx FPGAs to protect IP and prevent attached peripheral counterfeiting. The system implements a SHA-256 ...
ZDNet

Wireless security flaws exposed

A new set of security measures aimed at making 802.11-type wireless LANs safe from hackers is fundamentally flawed, according to researchers from the University of Maryland. Professor William Arbaugh ...