Asymmetric cryptography, also known as public key cryptography, is a process that uses a pair of related keys-- one public key and one private key -- to encrypt and decrypt a message and protect it ...

Nathan Eddy works as an independent filmmaker and journalist based in Berlin, specializing in architecture, business technology and healthcare IT. He is a graduate of Northwestern University’s Medill ...

In July, the National Institute of Standards and Technologies selected four cryptography algorithms as national standards for public key security in order to prepare for an era of quantum computers, ...

Cryptocurrency generally uses two different cryptographic methods—one dedicated to generating its public-private key pairs ...

For centuries, secure communication required a shared secret, until a radical idea emerged: what if the lock and the key never had to meet? This is the story of how splitting encryption into two ...

Reports began surfacing in October that Chinese researchers used a quantum computer to crack military-grade AES 256-bit encryption. Those reports turned out to be wrong, but that did little to dampen ...

The Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) is a symmetric block cipher chosen by the U.S. government to protect classified information. AES uses 128-, 192- or 256-bit keys to encrypt and decrypt data. The ...

Quantum computing has the potential to one day break today’s encryption algorithms, requiring a proactive approach to finding new and innovative ways to protect data that can withstand those upcoming ...