A successful quantum-safe strategy is built on a unified security platform, not on a collection of point solutions. It ...

A formula used to turn ordinary data, or "plaintext," into a secret coded message known as "ciphertext." The ciphertext can reside in storage or travel over unsecure networks without its contents ...

Whenever we talk about end-to-end encrypted data, we're usually talking about messaging apps like iMessage, Signal, WhatsApp, and Google's RCS. But plenty of other data is encrypted to ensure ...

The US Department of Commerce's technical standards organization NIST has nominated the Ascon group of cryptographic algorithms for protecting small devices and information transmitted to and from IoT ...

The US National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has chosen a new algorithm for post-quantum encryption. The HQC algorithm is intended to serve as a backup for ML-KEM, the main algorithm ...

Overview This article explains why cryptography skills are critical and covers courses that include encryption, Zero Trust ...

This story originally appeared on Ars Technica, a trusted source for technology news, tech policy analysis, reviews, and more. Ars is owned by WIRED's parent company, Condé Nast. Last month, the US ...

Algorithms for encrypting computer data come in two main varieties: symmetric and asymmetric. Each encryption type has inherent strengths and weaknesses. Symmetric algorithms convert plain-text data ...

A new version of the Petya disc-encrypting ransomware has been released that fixes a bug that previously caused some weakness in its encryption algorithm. According to Hasherezade, a security analyst ...