The government is concerned that hackers someday will be able to decrypt financial information and other secrets using ...

Craig Gidney is largely unknown outside of quantum computing, but his pioneering work on quantum circuits could have huge ...

The announcement follows a six-year effort to devise and then vet encryption methods to significantly increase the security of digital information, the agency said. The Department of Commerce’s ...

Two years ago, researchers in the Netherlands discovered an intentional backdoor in an encryption algorithm baked into radios used by critical infrastructure–as well as police, intelligence agencies, ...

Yoon Auh’s company does “cryptographic logistics,” swapping ciphers on the fly, because nobody can prove quantum-resistant ...

Anthropic’s Claude Mythos AI discovered a novel way to crack a weakened version of AES encryption, raising fresh concerns about AI’s future impact on internet security and cryptographic standards.

A recent, yet to be proven paper claiming to have found a way to "destroy the RSA cryptosystem" has cryptographers asking what might replace it. What if a big crack appeared overnight in the ...

Hot on the heels of Diffie-Hellman upending the cryptography applecart in 1976 came three more crypto newcomers that further revolutionized the field: Ron Rivest, Adi Shamir, and Leonard Adleman. The ...

Virtual private networks, or VPNs, have become an essential part of today’s online security toolkit. A VPN hides your public IP address by routing your internet traffic through a remote server. It ...

In the digital era and moving towards quantum computing, protecting data against hack attacks is one of our biggest challenges—and one that experts, governments, and industries worldwide work hard to ...