TechCrunch

Duality scores $14M DARPA contract for hardware-accelerated homomorphic encryption

Training AIs is essential to today’s tech sector, but handling the amount of data needed to do so is intrinsically dangerous. DARPA hopes to change that by tapping the encryption experts at Duality to ...
TechSpot

Microsoft wants to fix BitLocker's slowdown with hardware acceleration

Forward-looking: Originally introduced with Windows Vista in 2006, BitLocker is Microsoft's own solution for managing fully encrypted volumes and storage units. The technology is also notorious for ...
Nasdaq

Napatech Launches First Encryption/Decryption FPGA Hardware Accelerator on Amazon Web Services Elastic Compute Cloud

LOS ALTOS, Calif., April 9, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- Napatech™ (OSLO: NAPA.OL), the leading provider of reconfigurable computing platforms, today announced availability of the world's first FPGA-based ...
Business Insider

Apricorn Releases the First Hardware-Encrypted USB Flash Key with C-Type Connector

POWAY, Calif., July 23, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- Apricorn, the leading manufacturer of software-free, 256-bit AES XTS hardware-encrypted USB 3.2 storage devices, has launched the Aegis Secure Key 3NXC – ...
EDN

New QNAP Quad-Core TS-x53A Series, an IoT-centric QTS-Linux Combo NAS, Supports Hardware-accelerated Encryption & Transcoding With 4K UHD HDMI Output

QNAP® Systems, Inc. announced the release of the TS-x53A series – the world's first QTS-Linux dual system NAS. Powered by an 14nm Intel® Celeron® N3150 quad-core 1.6GHz processor with hardware ...
Android

Google Says Nexus 5X/6P Use Faster Software-Based Encryption

Google held a very informative AMA on Reddit today talking about its two latest smartphones that are due to hit the market soon, the Nexus 6P and the Nexus 5X. There were many topics covered by a ...
Android Police

The Nexus 5X And 6P Have Software-Accelerated Encryption, But The Nexus Team Says It's Better Than Hardware Encryption

Ryan is a tech/science writer, skeptic, lover of all things electronic, and Android fan. In his spare time he reads golden-age sci-fi and sleeps, but rarely at the same time. His wife tolerates him as ...
Ars Technica

ZFS encryption speed

I recently bought an Odroid HC4: a NAS optimized ARM SBC based on Amlogic's S905X3 and with proper SATA support (via PCIe, none of those USB bridge boondoggles). I then installed the latest Armbian ...
CSOonline

Intel, Microsoft join DARPA effort to accelerate fully homomorphic encryption

The partnership aims to improve performance and accuracy of FHE to make it practical for business and government to better protect confidential data in the cloud. Intel has partnered with Microsoft as ...
Liliputing

Google’s Adiantum could bring encryption to budget phones (and other devices)

Google has required phone makers to offer storage encryption on most smartphones that have shipped with Android 6.0 or later. But the company has offered exemptions on devices that don’t support ...
Ars Technica

disk encryption software recommendations?

I was considering purchasing hard drive encryption software for our consultants' laptops in case they were lost or stolen. Does anyone have any recommendations or tips on what to look for in a good ...