Sending secret messages to your friends is fun, but today it’s so simple that you don’t even notice it anymore: practically any serious messaging system features encryption of some sort. To teach his ...

The concept of cryptography touches our lives many times per day, and that’s probably a conservative estimate. We have a pretty good idea of how it works, having dealt with public-key cryptography for ...

Cryptography secures data through algorithms, crucial for private and authentic communication. Investing in cryptocurrency involves understanding key encryption methods like hash functions.

This article is part of the TechXchange: Cybersecurity. This article series is in the Communication topic within our Series Library. Designed to be a study guide for a product development engineer, ...

(July 3, 2018) -- Two cybersecurity education games are now available for community input to teach cryptography and cybersecurity principles to middle school students. Project Cipher is designed to ...

Description: Introduces the basic concepts of cryptography. Various cipher systems are presented, including transposition and substitution systems, Block ciphers, RSA, and Knapsack. Methods used to ...

In theory, quantum physics can bypass the hard mathematical problems at the root of modern encryption. A new proof shows how.

Quantum cryptography is back in the news, and the basic idea is still unbelievably cool, in theory, and nearly useless in real life. The idea behind quantum crypto is that two people communicating ...