In today's electronic age, the importance of digitalcryptography in securing electronic data transactions isunquestionable. Every day, users electronically generate andcommunicate a large volume of ...

Almost 20 years ago, Whit Diffie predicted that the public-key cryptography being widely used at the time would be strong enough for generations to come. In an article, "The First Ten Years of Public ...

Although most users don’t know it, their Web browser plays a key part in determining the strength of the ciphers used between their client and an HTTPS-protected Web site. Encryption ciphers used in ...

Recently, Professor Guilu Long, Dr. Zeguo Wang, Dr. Shijie Wei from Tsinghua University and Beijing Academy of Quantum Information Sciences, and Professor Lajos Hanzo from the University of ...

Software developers are usually told to ‘never write your own cryptography’, and there definitely are sufficient examples to be found in the past decades of cases where DIY crypto routines caused real ...

In the previous blog post, “Securing Offload Engines for a Robust Secure SoC System,” we briefly looked at some of the methods employed for achieving embedded security, i.e., cryptography, hardware ...

A number of you have e-mailed in to report that the Advanced Encryption Standard (aka, AES) encryption appears to be compromised (<i>andy fat bastard</i> was first, so he wins). The issue is whether ...

Imagine a world where the most widely-used cryptographic methods turn out to be broken: quantum computers allow encrypted Internet data transactions to become readable by anyone who happened to be ...