ASC X9 has released a new standard, X9.24-3, that allows the use of the AES DUKPT algorithm to enhance security in retail financial transactions.

In other crypto news, a group of researchers has developed a new attack on the AES encryption algorithm. The attack is the first one on AES that is better than a brute force attack.

The Advance Encryption Standard (AES) algorithm is a symmetric block cipher that provides a high level of confusion and diffusion, so it is considered, immune against many known mathematical analysis ...