A formula used to turn ordinary data, or "plaintext," into a secret coded message known as "ciphertext." The ciphertext can reside in storage or travel over unsecure networks without its contents ...

Steve Orrin is the federal CTO for Intel Corporation. He has held architectural and leadership positions at Intel, driving strategy and projects on identity, anti-malware, HTML5 security, cloud and ...

Future quantum computers will need to be less powerful than we thought to threaten the security of encrypted messages.

Quantum computing represents a looming—and inevitable—threat to almost every aspect of our digital world that is protected by current forms of encryption. Either within this decade or the next, ...

Scientists have developed algorithms that more efficiently measure how difficult it would be for an attacker to guess secret keys for cryptographic systems. The approach could reduce the computational ...

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The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) announced that ASCON is the winning bid for the "lightweight cryptography" program to find the best algorithm to protect small IoT (Internet ...

Today, threat actors are quietly collecting data, waiting for the day when that information can be cracked with future ...

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is proposing that the Data Encryption Standard (DES), a popular encryption algorithm, lose its certification for use in software products sold ...