Data breaches, hacked systems and hostage malware are frequently topics of evening news casts — including stories of department store, hospital, government and bank data leaking into unsavor... Read more
In the digital age, security of sensitive information is of utmost importance. Many data are encrypted before they enter the data highway. Mostly, these methods use a password for decryption... Read more
Special-purpose chip reduces power consumption of public-key encryption by 99.75 percent, increases speed 500-fold. Most sensitive web transactions are protected by public-key cryptography,... Read more
While the Justice Department wages a public fight with Apple over access to a locked iPhone, government officials are privately debating how to resolve a prolonged standoff with another tech... Read more
Toshiba, ADVA Optical Networking and BT have announced a breakthrough in new encryption technology, successfully securing 200GB/s of data over a 100km length of fibre using quantum cryptogra... Read more
In the wake of the revelations that intelligence agencies have been engaged in mass surveillance activities, both industry and society at large are looking for practicable encryption solutio... Read more
A revolutionary new method of encrypting confidential information has been patented by scientists at Lancaster University. They have been inspired by their discoveries from human biology, wh... Read more
Satellites could be used to beam down powerful data encryption keys that rely on entangled photos. The vacuum of space could solve the distance problem encountered in sending quantum signals... Read more
