cryptography

Quanta magazine recently published a breathless article on indistinguishability obfuscation — calling it the “‘crown jewel’ of cryptography” — and saying that it had finally been achieved, based on a recently published ...

Introduction In cryptography, a key is a very important piece of information used to combine with an algorithm (a cipher) to transform plaintext into ciphertext (encryption). The first step of preventive security ...

DiceKeys is a physical mechanism for creating and storing a 192-bit key. The idea is that you roll a special set of twenty-five dice, put them into a plastic jig, and then ...

A scientist at Los Alamos National Laboratory recently asked an important question: “When full-fledged quantum computers arrive, will we be ready?” This scientist researches quantum information theory and his opinion piece for ...

NIST has posted an update on their post-quantum cryptography program: After spending more than three years examining new approaches to encryption and data protection that could defeat an assault from a quantum ...

Introduction They say that those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. A salient factor in the defeat of Austria by Prussia in the 1866 Austro-Prussian war was the ...

Over the years, the definition, functionality, and team required to operate a modern PKI infrastructure has drastically changed ...

Postbank, the banking division of South Africa’s Pat Office, recently reported that a rogue employee had stolen the 36-digit master keys used to protect the banks systems. The result: 25,000 fraudulent charges ...

Most people today are familiar with the basic idea of cryptography -- encrypting a message to secure it so that it’s not readable to anyone and everyone ...

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