Here comes the fastest public-key algorithm that most people have never heard of: It’s called NTRUEncrypt and this month was approved by the financial services standards body, the Accredited Standards ...
Amidst all of the confusion and concern over an encryption algorithm that may contain an NSA backdoor, RSA Security released an advisory to developer customers today noting that the algorithm is the ...
Prime numbers are all the rage these days. I can tell something’s up when random people start asking me about the randomness of primes—without even knowing that I’m a mathematician! In the past couple ...