China has demonstrated the most growth in scientific research of any country in the past three decades and is on pace to overtake the United States as the world’s scientific leader by 2020, according to a recent Thomson Reuters study. The study found that China has experienced a 64-fold increase in peer-reviewed scientific papers since [...]

The U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has completed round one of its open competition to create a new Secure Hash Algorithm (SHA). The cryptographic community narrowed the first round’s 64 submissions down to 14 semifinalists. Fifty-one of the 64 algorithms submitted in 2008 met the competition’s minimum criteria, and it took the [...]

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