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 in... 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... 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 cryp... 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 an... 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... 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 encrypti... 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 b... Read more
