Encryption is a cornerstone of digital security, but can be pretty difficult to understand, especially for all of us non-math people. Generally speaking, encryption safeguards sensitive data from ...

Hi, I'm Matthias, co-founder of Tuta, a secure email service. We are innovation leaders in encrypted communication and collaboration. The world is changing at a faster pace than ever, particularly in ...

Online data is generally pretty secure. Assuming everyone is careful with passwords and other protections, you can think of ...

The very prospect of the quantum apocalypse has driven various stakeholders to consider what that could be like and how to prepare. For instance, in 2015, the U.S. Natio ...

No longer relegated to post-doctorate physics academia and sad Schrödinger's cat thought experiments, post-quantum computing remediation has arrived in the real world. Quantum computing is expected to ...

Every time you log into your bank, send an email, or connect to a VPN, encryption quietly does the heavy lifting. The internet feels simple. The security underneath it? Anything but simplicity. That’s ...

Microsoft Research announced Tuesday that it is setting up a group to do research in cryptography at its lab in Bangalore, India. Cryptography is a key area of research for Microsoft Research because ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. In our increasingly digital lives, security depends on cryptography. Send a private message or pay a bill online, and you’re relying on ...

Tom Mangan is an experienced freelance B2B technology writer specializing in artificial intelligence, cloud services, cybersecurity, modernization and more. See more of his work at tommangan.net.

If you keep a lot of valuable information on your Mac, encrypting it will help you keep the data safe. Apple’s built-in FileVault disk encryption on macOS is an effective way to do this. But what ...

Bitcoin is a digital currency which operates free of any central control or the oversight of banks or governments. Instead it relies on peer-to-peer software and cryptography. A public ledger records ...

The National Institute for Standards in Technology has issued a report on the need to plan for the cryptographic apocalypse. Share on Facebook (opens in a new window) Share on X (opens in a new window ...