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According to one of the world’s leading cryptographers, Bitcoin’s elliptic curve could have a secret backdoor, invalidating all underlying security.
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Cryptography News
Cryptography is a science that studies methods of the provision of confidentiality, integrity of data and authentication of it. Cryptography is a part of various fields of study, such as computer science, physics, mathematics, electrical engineering and others. Blockchain cryptography is a crucial part of the cryptocurrency industry. Different approaches to blockchain cryptography — and ways of maintaining it — allow the industry to become more diverse and use products of these approaches in different circumstances. The Bitcoin cryptographic approach is the most used in the cryptocurrency industry but is continuously developing and including new technologies. “Understanding Bitcoin; cryptography, engineering and economics” by Pedro Franco is one of the most popular books for learning about Bitcoin and offers a wide view on the implementation of the technology.
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Scientists in China managed to exchange a crypto key at a distance of over 1,000 kilometers, could this lead to hackerproof cryptography?
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Charles Hoskinson believes that this complex cryptographic technique could have helped avoid the Bitcoin Civil War that led to the formation of Bitcoin Cash.
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Jean-Jacques Quisquater, a legendary cryptographer cited in the Bitcoin Whitepaper, discussed building the first blockchain.
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Video conferencing app Zoom, the undisputed titan in an era of social distancing, has acquired end-to-end encryption start-up Keybase.
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BBVA and a state-backed research center in Spain have launched a partnership to explore advanced cryptography for financial services.
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Algorand developed a new cryptographic primitive replacing the common Merkle roots that vastly improves performance for certain types of blockchains, including Ethereum.
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Privacy, efficiency and scalability: The improvements that can secure multiparty computation bring to the crypto industry.
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Quantum computing could potentially break much of the encryption algorithms and protocols that currently secure the internet and computational industry as they are.
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The encryption process generates cryptographic keys that are used to lock (encrypt) and unlock (decrypt) data. There are two forms of encryption keys: symmetric and asymmetric.
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Privacy on Ethereum is now possible through Aztec, a project using zero knowledge cryptography derived from Zcash to hide amounts for private tokens.
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Bitcoin’s Taproot proposal is believed to vastly improve privacy, but its author revealed that it is not a silver bullet and it does not hide CoinJoin transactions.
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The crypto world is worried about the rapid advancements in quantum computing. Are blockchain projects ready to face the quantum threat?
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Triptych is a new ring signatures construction that could increase Monero’s anonymity set more than tenfold, though live implementations are still far off.
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Samsung SDS partnered with Israeli privacy-enhancing tech firm QEDIT to provide more privacy for its enterprise blockchain Nexledger.
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