Every time you send a text, pay for groceries with your phone, or use your health site, you are relying on encryption.

Lava lamps aren't just psychedelic decor. One major internet company uses them to help generate the randomness behind secure encryption keys.

In early 2025, Forbes reports, investigators at the FBI served Microsoft with a warrant seeking the BitLocker encryption recovery keys for several laptops it believed held evidence of fraud in Guam’s ...

After a multi-year competition, the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) selected a suite of algorithms for standardization. For key exchange, the primary choice is the ...

Ink containing polymers that can store data has been used to write a letter containing a hidden message – the encryption key to unlock a text file of L. Frank Baum’s The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. Eric ...

Public-key encryption, as noted in the profile of cryptographer Bruce Schneier, is complicated in detail but simple in outline. The article below is an outline of the principles of the most common ...

Readers of a certain age will remember those 'invisible ink' spy toys that let you write a 'secret' message which would only appear after rubbing the page with half of a lemon. Yeah, this is not that.

The fatal flaw of encrypted backups: You are locking yourself out of your own data ...

If company data is stored with a cloud provider, they usually handle encryption. However, for confidential data, you should ...