Most business leaders don’t think about cryptography—and that has always been the point. For decades, encryption quietly protected data in the background, rarely demanding attention once systems were ...

For more than two decades, large corporations have woven cryptographic functions directly into the fabric of their applications, believing that vendor-supplied encryption would safeguard data ...

When you’re an applied cryptographer, teaching your preteen daughters what you do for a living isn’t easy. That’s why Justin Troutman developed PocketBlock, a visual, gamified curriculum that makes ...

Members can download this article in PDF format. Let’s recap some of the basics we’ve learned so far from our series and then review how we can use what we’ve learned. Along with a few well-designed ...

Before we move into the meat of this article, let’s define a couple terms related to cryptography. The syllable crypt may make you think of tombs, but it comes from a Greek word that means “hidden” or ...

Members can download this article in PDF format. In our day-to-day lives, the use of cryptography is everywhere. For example, we use it to securely send passwords over vast networks for online ...

Cryptosat, a startup creating satellites that beam cryptographic building blocks down to Earth, has raised $3 million from seed investors. The company aims to harden cryptographic applications by ...

Twenty years before the Internet would create a need for it, a public-key cryptographic standard was discovered and patented by Whitfield Diffie, along with another student and a professor at Stanford ...

Apple AAPL is introducing new security to its iMessage service in the form of the PQ3 protocol, an end-to-end encrypted messaging protocol designed for exchanging data in long-lived sessions between ...