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 ...

The National Institute of Standards and Technology is taking another large step in its ongoing mission to steer organizations toward post-quantum cyber readiness, announcing the beginning of agency ...

Quantum computing represents a major threat to encryption, and the inflection point may be less than five years away.

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, ...

Sometimes it is necessary to keep certain data files private,whether the files are on a disk or perhaps sent over a network throughe-mails. Financial institutions, large corporations and ...

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Encryption is a term that many of us have come across, but what does it mean? To put it simply, encryption is the encoding of information. Various online services use it to keep your data private and ...

Virtual Private Networks (VPNs) are used to secue online browsing by using encryption. But how does this encryption actually ...