SAN FRANCISCO, March 19, 2024 /PRNewswire/ --Delinea,a leading provider of solutions that seamlessly extend Privileged Access Management (PAM),today announced industry-first innovation to protect organizations from threats in the post-quantum computing era with the availability of quantum-safe encryption of secrets and credentials on the Delinea Platform. Aligned to NIST standards, quantum-safe encryption on Secret Server empowers organizations to secure critical credentials from being compromised by quantum computers with one of the four NIST-recommended asymmetric algorithms, CRYSTALS-Kyber

Nevadas attorney general who escalated a request to the court to ban Metas use of encryption for Facebook Messenger users under 18 has faced opposition from the Electronic Frontier Foundation and other organisations which argue that childrens privacy must be protected by such measures. The brief, opposing a potential ban, was submitted by the American Civil Liberties Union, the ACLU of Nevada, the Stanford Internet Observatory Research Scholar Riana Pfefferkorn and gained more signatures of support. After years of lobbying for end-to-end encryption in Facebooks Messenger app, the EFF is concerned that Meta could be influenced into making an ill-advised U-turn on privacy, whilst the pressure on social media companies to do more to protect childrens safety online increases.

Certificates with RSA keys shorter than 2048 will soon no longer be supported by Windows, Microsoft has announced. This deprecation focuses on ensuring that all RSA certificates used for TLS server authentication must have key lengths greater than or equal to 2048 bits to be considered valid by Windows, the software giant said in the announcement, part of its latest Deprecated features for Windows client list