Every online bank transfer, private message and Bitcoin transaction rests on the assumption that some math problems are ...

Code-based cryptography is a promising branch of post-quantum cryptography that exploits the inherent complexity of decoding linear error-correcting codes. Traditional schemes, such as the McEliece ...

Ever since writing has existed, people have wanted to send secret messages to one another--and others have wanted to intercept and read them. This is the second installment of a blog series taking you ...

Will quantum computers crack cryptographic codes and cause a global security disaster? You might certainly get that impression from a lot of news coverage, the latest of which reports new estimates ...

This is the third installment in Reason's four-part documentary series titled "Cypherpunks Write Code." Watch the complete series here. In 1977, a team of cryptographers at MIT made an astonishing ...

Disclosure: the author of this article is involved with the Ethereum project. There have been a number of very interesting developments in cryptography in the past few years. Satoshi’s blockchain ...

Explore the inner workings of the javax.crypto.Cipher class in Java's cryptography API: understand its provider-based architecture ...

Today, the market for counterfeit goods is massive and is estimated to be over $1.8 trillion, more than the GDP of most countries. When discussing counterfeit goods, most people think about luxury ...

Juniper Networks has announced its intention to remove two flawed cryptographic functions from its software over the next few months. Last December, the multinational provider and marketer of ...

On Tuesday, the tech giant said the patent, granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), uses printed circuit board (PCB) structure as the inspiration for a new method to protect ...