China’s ‘Queen of Cryptography’ Wang Xiaoyun: A Legendary Scholar Who Broke America’s Top Encryption Algorithms to Safeguard National Cybersecurity

China's 'Queen of Cryptography' Wang Xiaoyun: A Legendary Scholar Who Broke America's Top Encryption Algorithms to Safeguard National Cybersecurity

She is known as the “Queen of Cryptography” in China and is a mathematical genius that gives headaches to American intelligence agencies. She led her team to successively crack globally recognized secure encryption algorithms such as MD5 and SHA-1, shocking the international cryptography community and forcing the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) … Read more

Why Did Google Crack the SHA-1 Algorithm?

Why Did Google Crack the SHA-1 Algorithm?

A few days ago, the news of Google cracking the SHA-1 algorithm flooded my social media feed. In fact, the term “crack” is not entirely accurate, it should be that they published an example of breaking the SHA-1 algorithm. Regarding this news, I saw two different comments: A: Wow, that’s amazing! They actually cracked an … Read more