The National Institute of Standards and Technology says the advent of massively parallel computing has rendered the Data Encryption Standard inadequate to protect federal government information.

There are obstacles and concerns that businesses need to consider when transitioning to 3072-bit encryption keys. One of the challenges is accommodating needs as larger key sizes naturally impact ...

• AES (Advanced Encryption Standard): AES is a symmetric encryption algorithm widely used in government and industry. It offers key lengths of 128, 192 and 256 bits, providing strong security.

Data Encryption Standard was designed in the early 1970s by IBM with input from NSA. It is OK, but a single key can be broken in three days by the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a poorly funded ...