It’s a problem no business can risk putting on the back burner anymore: securing data. We are in a period where the ease of being connected, especially through the cloud, has made us more vulnerable ...

Encryption has become a more accessible technology for securing your data, both in transit and on storage devices. But it still is not simple. The information in this article will help you grasp the ...

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Encryption has become a routine part of everyday life. Your iPhone uses it to defeat cybercriminals and snoopers. Security cameras may use it to keep footage private. And your VPN definitely uses it, ...

Encryption is a word that has been used quite a bit as of late, especially when concerning the Apple vs. FBI case to open the iPhone of an alleged shooter and popular messaging apps like WhatsApp.

Quantum computers won’t break the internet tomorrow… but they will break your email security sooner than you think. Today, cybercriminals and state-sponsored groups are quietly collecting encrypted ...

In the previous blog post, “Securing Offload Engines for a Robust Secure SoC System,” we briefly looked at some of the methods employed for achieving embedded security, i.e., cryptography, hardware ...

The Java Cryptography Extension (JCE) is now a core part of Java SDK 1.4. Basically, it's a set of packages that provide a framework and implementations for encryption, key generation and agreement, ...

Quantum computing could break cryptographic keys in minutes, posing a major threat to crypto security. Current cryptographic ...

Quantum encryption is the mathematics of cryptography leveraging the physics of quantum mechanics to make unpredictable crypto keys – that’s all it is. There are two major methodologies of quantum ...