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• Stanford crypto expert Dan Boneh wins $175K computer science award

  Stanford University computer science professor Dan Boneh has been named as the recipient of the 2014 ACM-Infosys Foundation Award in Computing Sciences for his work ...

• PGP creator, other top cryptographers head 2014 National Cyber Security Hall of Fame class

  Accomplished cryptographers are among the five inductees into this year's National Cyber Security Hall of Fame.

• Crypto guru Whit Diffie takes ICANN security job

  Will advise Internet group on security matters as it manages domain names, IP addresses

• Centrelink issues $500k unbreakable code for free

  Algorithms withstood three years of Defence hacking

• VeriSign buys Certicom after RIM withdraws bid

  After RIM abandoned its hostile bid for Certicom, VeriSign announced it plans to buy the security company.

• Amateurs and pros vie to build new crypto standard

  The American National Institute of Standards and Technology has organised a contest to find a new cryptographic hash algorithm to replace SHA-2 (Secure Hash Algorithm ...