Encryption Stories for 2023

The Race to Shield Secrets from Quantum Computers 67
Proton Mail Finally Gets a Desktop App For Encrypted Email and Calendar 21
Apple Blocks 'Beeper Mini', Citing Security Concerns. But Beeper Keeps Trying 90
Meta Defies FBI Opposition To Encryption, Brings E2EE To Facebook, Messenger 39
Facebook Kills PGP-Encrypted Emails 37
Beeper Mini is an iMessage-for-Android App That Doesn't Require Any Apple Device at All 122
Sunbird is Shutting Down Its iMessage App for Android 12
Signal Reveals Its Operation Costs, Estimates $50 Million a Year In 2024 29
Signal Messaging App Now Testing Usernames 52
Tech Groups Fear New Powers Will Allow UK To Block Encryption 40
'Encryption King' Arrested In Turkey 31
Scientist Claims Quantum RSA-2048 Encryption Cracking Breakthrough 129
How the US is Preparing For a Post-Quantum World 45
Mathematician Warns US Spies May Be Weakening Next-Gen Encryption 78
Sandvine Scraps Plan To Market Tool in US That Tracks Encrypted Messages 7
Cryptographer Announces $12K Bounty to Find the Lost Seeds to 5 NIST Elliptic Curves 43
New Group Attacking iPhone Encryption Backed By US Political Dark-Money Network 52
Meredith Whittaker Reaffirms That Signal Would Leave UK If Forced By Privacy Bill 69
UK Pulls Back From Clash With Big Tech Over Private Messaging 20
Google Releases First Quantum-Resilient FIDO2 Key Implementation 16
Google's Chrome Begins Supporting Post-Quantum Key Agreement to Shield Encryption Keys 13
UK Defends Plan To Demand Access To Encrypted Messages To Protect Children 114
Google's Messages App Will Now Use RCS By Default and Encrypt Group Chats 72
Banks Fined $549 Million Over Use of WhatsApp and Other Messaging Apps 28
Ask Slashdot: What's the Best (Encrypted) Password Manager? 154
Cult of Dead Cow Hacktivists Design Encryption System for Mobile Apps 22
Could NIST Delays Push Post-Quantum Security Products Into the Next Decade? 45
Google Messages To Support MLS Protocol For Interoperable E2E Encrypted Messaging 21
Apple Slams UK Surveillance-bill Proposals, Threatens To Remove FaceTime and iMessage 61
Senate Bill Crafted With DEA Targets End-to-End Encryption, Requires Online Companies To Report Drug Activity 144
macOS Sonoma Brings Apple Password Manager To Third-Party Browsers 19
Security Researchers Latest To Blast UK's Online Safety Bill As Encryption Risk 5
Apple Joins Opposition in UK To Encrypted Message App Scanning 40
3-Year Probe Into Encrypted Phones Led To Seizure of Hundreds of Tons of Drugs, Prosecutors Say 60
The US Navy, NATO, and NASA Are Using a Shady Chinese Company's Encryption Chips 45
Hackers Can Steal Cryptographic Keys By Video-Recording Power LEDs 60 Feet Away 26
Leaked Government Document Shows Spain Wants To Ban End-to-End Encryption 76
Inside the Italian Mafia's Encrypted Phone of Choice 75
Google Plans To Add End-To-End Encryption To Authenticator 24
Meta Encryption 'Blindfolds' Authorities To Child Abuse, Crime Agencies Claim 84
WhatsApp, Signal and Encrypted Messaging Apps Unite Against UK's Online Safety Bill 69
WhatsApp Would Not Remove End-To-End Encryption For UK Law, Says Chief 47
Google: Gmail Client-Side Encryption Now Publicly Available 50
Signal Would 'Walk' From UK if Online Safety Bill Undermined Encryption 42
Will Quantum Computing Bring a Cryptopocalypse? 71
US NIST Unveils Winning Encryption Algorithm For IoT Data Protection 9
UK Proposes Making the Sale and Possession of Encrypted Phones Illegal 61
Kremlin's Tracking of Russian Dissidents Through Telegram Suggests App's Encryption Has Been Compromised 56
Anker Finally Comes Clean About Its Eufy Security Cameras 30
iOS 16.3 Expands Advanced Data Protection Option For iCloud Encryption Globally 17
CircleCI Says Hackers Stole Encryption Keys and Customers' Secrets 23
Amazon S3 Will Now Encrypt All New Data With AES-256 By Default 27
Chinese Researchers Claim To Find Way To Break Encryption Using Quantum Computers 50