The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) recently proposed standardizing the block and key size used in the Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) to 256 bits. According to NIST, ...

Update: On June 21, 2021, Colorado’s state legislature passed a bill requiring police agencies that fully encrypt radio communications to enact media access policies in consultation with the media.

The debate over police radio encryption shows how technology is relevant to First Amendment questions even at the local level. Local governments are starting to encrypt routine police radio ...

Under Mayor Adams, who once declared that there was nothing more important to him than transparency, the NYPD is continuing on its quest to encrypt all radio communications, shutting out the public’s ...

The question of whether police radio transmissions should be encrypted has strong opinions on both sides. My father was Chief on the Prior Lake Fire Department for many years, so I know how important ...

Senate Bill 1000, which would’ve required California law enforcement agencies to find alternatives to fully encrypted radio communications, failed to advance to the full state Assembly on Aug. 11, ...

State Senate Bill 1000, which would require law enforcement agencies to find alternatives to encrypted radios, was advanced by the Senate Public Safety Committee on April 19, 2022. Embarcadero Media ...