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AWS Key Management Service Introduces Multi-Region Keys
AWS has recently announced the availability of KMS multi-region keys, a new feature for client-side applications that makes encrypted data portable across regions.
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Google Cloud Improves SLA for Bigtable and Adds New Security Features
Google Cloud has recently raised the availability SLA for Bigtable instances up to 99.999%, matching the SLA for Firestore and Cloud Spanner. The data storage system introduced as well two new security features for enterprise workloads, customer-managed encryption keys (CMEK) and data access audit logs.
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GitHub Reacts to Growing Cryptocurrency Mining Attacks Using GitHub Actions
In response to the recent surge in cryptocurrency mining attacks, GitHub has changed how pull requests from public forks are handled in GitHub Actions to prevent abuse.
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Post-Quantum Cryptography: Q&A with Jean-Philippe Aumasson
While quantum computing is still in its infancy, post-quantum cryptography is a field of growing interest for companies and research institutions. InfoQ has spoken with cryptography researcher Jean-Philippe Aumasson to understand where post-quantum crypto is headed.
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The Pillars of Future Cryptography at IBM
In a recent webinar, IBM summarized the latest advances in cryptographic technologies the company has been working on, including confidential cryptography, quantum-safe encryption, and fully homomorphic cryptography.
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Linux Foundation Sigstore Aims to Be the Let's Encrypt of Code Signing
Backed by the Linux Foundation, Sigstore aims to provide a non-profit service to foster the adoption of cryptographic signing by open source projects to make the software supply chain more secure.
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Filecoin Aims to Use Blockchain to Make Decentralized Storage Resilient and Hard to Censor
Launched in 2017, Filecoin is an open-source decentralized storage network that uses blockchain to implement a cooperative digital storage and data retrieval solution. InfoQ has spoken with Filecoin software engineer Aayush Rajasekaran, who built Filecoin's Lotus implementation.
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The Cloud Trust Paradox According to Google Cloud
In a series of three technical articles, Google Cloud has recently discussed how to trust cloud providers, covering the concepts of customer trust, security key management and scenarios where keeping encryption keys off the cloud may be necessary.
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Five Years of Lets Encrypt
Five years ago, a non-profit organisation set up a public certificate authority, with the intent of enabling websites to become more secure by default through automated provisioning of TLS certificates. Five years later, and Lets Encrypt is putting together its own top-level root CA, which will be served by default next year - but some older Android versions won't be able to use it.
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IBM Fully Homomorphic Encryption Toolkit Now Available for Linux
A few weeks after becoming available for macOS, iOS, and Android, the IBM Fully Homomorphic Encryption Toolkit can be now installed on various Linux distributions, including Ubuntu, Fedora, and CentOS for x86 platforms, and Ubuntu for IBM's own Z architecture.
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IBM Fully Homomorphic Encryption Toolkit Now Available for MacOS and iOS
IBM's Fully Homomorphic Encryption (FHE) Toolkit aims to allow developers to start using FHE in their solutions. According to IBM, FHE can have a dramatic impact on data security and privacy in highly regulated industries by enabling computing directly on encrypted data.
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Secure Multiparty Computation May Enable Privacy-Protecting Contact Tracing Solutions
The current COVID-19 pandemic has fueled several efforts to implement contact tracing apps, based on a number of different cryptographic approaches. InfoQ has spoken with HashiCorp principal product manager for cryptography and security Andy Manoske to learn more about Secure Multiparty Computation and how it can enable privacy-protecting analysis on private data from different sources.
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TLS Improvements Backported to Java 8
Application Layer Protocol Negotiation is now available in Java 8, enabling software owners to communicate through HTTP/2 without a higher Java version.
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Let's Encrypt is Revoking Three Million Certificates on March 4
Non-profit certificate authority Let's Encrypt, which provides X.509 certificates for TLS encryption at no charge, has announced it will revoke customer certificates today due to a bug in their Boulder CA software.
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Swift Crypto Brings Apple CryptoKit API to Server-Side Swift
Swift Crypto is a new open-source library for Swift that aims to provide a common API for cryptographic operations on all supported platforms. On macOS, Swift Crypto leverage Apple's CryptoKit framework, while BoringSSL is used for all other platforms.