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(TNS) — When we check email, log in to our bank accounts, or exchange messages on Signal, our passwords and credentials are protected through encryption, a locking scheme that uses secrets to disguise ...

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 ...

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

Hot on the heels of Diffie-Hellman upending the cryptography applecart in 1976 came three more crypto newcomers that further revolutionized the field: Ron Rivest, Adi Shamir, and Leonard Adleman. The ...

Of course, firmware upgrades and data logs are seldom exactly 64 bits in length. To encrypt long strings of data using Blowfish, carve the message up into 64-bit blocks, encrypt each block and save ...