One of the more interesting – and some say controversial -- pieces of news to come out of the recent 2023 Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas was a claim by Chinese scientists who say they’ve ...

This is the third installment in Reason's four-part documentary series titled "Cypherpunks Write Code." Watch the complete series here. In 1977, a team of cryptographers at MIT made an astonishing ...

I remember back in the '90s there was a considerably controversy around encryption and encryption algorithms. I think there was a law in the US that forbid implementation of higher than 1024-bit ...

Electronic Code Book (ECB) is a simple mode of operation with a block cipher that's mostly used with symmetric key encryption. It is a straightforward way of processing a series of sequentially listed ...

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 ...

Discover the top 7 open-source encryption software options for enterprises in 2026, covering essential features, use cases, and critical insights for effective data protection and compliance.

Encryption is the process of converting readable data into a coded format that is only accessible by someone with the proper key or password. At its core, encryption ensures privacy and security by ...

Under Elon Musk, Twitter may be reviving a project that would bring end-to-end encryption to its Direct Messaging system. Work appears to have resumed on the feature in the latest version of the ...

Antivirus software vendor Kaspersky is launching an international effort to try to crack the encryption used in a “blackmailer” virus that locks up data on a victim’s computer. The company announced ...

Nowadays data breaches aren’t rare shocks – they’re a weekly drumbeat. From leaked customer records to stolen source code, our digital lives keep spilling into the open. Git services are especially ...