The race in quantum cryptography is on and people from all walks of life whether academics, business or industrialists, are going to be affected by it. The centuries old approach of encryption still holds importance while communication channels has advanced in this era. But with encryption, there are two problems: first the keys (keys generation, key calculations etc.) and second, their distribution. It may not sound that old but when DES was broken, the temporary solution 3DES or Triple DES was implemented, until the modern asymmetric algorithm RSA was formulated and taken up as an encryption standard for communication moving…
Author: Huma Nadeem
The United Nations is holding its first ever global cybercrime treaty this week. The 4th round of this hearing is scheduled this January from 9 – 20 January. The focus of the hearing is “state response to cybercrime ” and coordinated intelligence sharing. Nevertheless, this is a much waited treaty, looking into the increasing cybercrimes in cyberspace. The objective of the proposed cybercrime treaty is to classify and categorize various cybercrimes and define a unified international response. A legal reaction regulated internationally is need of the hour to cater all the increasing cybercrimes throughout the world. According to Paul Brucciani,…
