The core advantage of quantum computing — the ability to compute for many possible outcomes at the same time and therefore crunch data much more quickly than classical computers — also creates a ...

The U.S. Commerce Department has approved a new, stronger data-encryption standard intended to replace an aging standard first adopted in 1977. The Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) is intended to ...

The RSA agreed to incorporate a flawed encryption formula into a widely used security product in accordance with a secret $10 million NSA contract. The RSA Conference, the world’s largest computer ...

In response to the mind-numbing, never-ending reports of data breaches in the news, I am seeing a distinct move to data encryption as the latest best hope for information security. While encryption is ...

The Department of Homeland Security and federal agencies are in incident-response mode as they work to remove listening posts in software planted by suspected cyberspies. The unauthorized code can ...

WASHINGTON — The Department of Commerce rolled out a new U.S. encryption standard for the federal government on Tuesday (Dec. 4) in hopes that industry will also embrace it. The Advanced Encryption ...

Let’s begin with a statement that contradicts most texts on the subject: Tokenization is a form of encryption. Encryption is a process wherein a piece of data is replaced with a different piece of ...

In contrast to the cooperative preparations required for setting up private key encryption, such as secret-sharing and close coordination between sender and receiver ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -- A scrambling technique scripted by two Belgians has been chosen as the proposed U.S. government standard to protect sensitive data and help spur the digital economy, the ...