Public-key encryption is essential for secure communications, eliminating the need for pre-shared keys. In the information age, our digital lives, from online payments to private communications, ...

For thousands of years, if you wanted to send a secret message, there was basically one way to do it. You’d scramble the message using a special rule, known only to you and your intended audience.

An American physicist and Canadian computer scientist received the A.M. Turing Award on Wednesday for their groundbreaking ...

Microsoft prepares for security in a world where our old codes are easily broken. Get familiar with these technologies now before they become necessary. Much of what we do to keep our online lives ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. For thousands of years, if you wanted to send a secret message, there was basically one way to do it. You’d scramble the message using a ...

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 ...

Keith Martin receives funding from EPSRC. Will quantum computers crack cryptographic codes and cause a global security disaster? You might certainly get that impression from a lot of news coverage, ...

In today’s fast-changing world of business regulations and data security, many leaders face privacy and protection challenges they aren’t fully prepared to handle. Most understand the basics of ...