After RIM abandoned its hostile bid for Certicom, VeriSign announced it plans to buy the security company.
VeriSign said it plans to buy Certicom, just three days after Research In Motion's hostile bid for the security company unraveled.
New mathematical attack works against a broad range cryptographic functions.
Unless you're a dyed in the wool cryptographic geek you probably didn't know that there was a Crypto conference, or even a chain of worldwide crypto conferences that take place each year. Fortunately, for the most of us that aren't crypto geeks there are a handful of very highly skilled people who are; they can take the highly theoretical and complex mathematical proofs and arguments that make up most of modern cryptographic and cryptanalytic research and put it into plain language.
