Quanta magazine recently published a breathless article on indistinguishability obfuscation — calling it the “‘crown jewel’ of cryptography” — and…
Introduction In cryptography, a key is a very important piece of information used to combine with an algorithm (a cipher)…
DiceKeys is a physical mechanism for creating and storing a 192-bit key. The idea is that you roll a special…
A scientist at Los Alamos National Laboratory recently asked an important question: “When full-fledged quantum computers arrive, will we be…
NIST has posted an update on their post-quantum cryptography program: After spending more than three years examining new approaches to…
Introduction They say that those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. A salient factor in 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…
Most people today are familiar with the basic idea of cryptography -- encrypting a message to secure it so that…
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