Articles tagged "encryption"

What is the future of secure communication? A quantum internet, of course.

But finding the biggest one is worth a $100,000 prize.

The thing used to protect most of your digital secrets -- credit card numbers, email accounts, bank account information, whatever -- is a peculiar sort of lock and key, a variety of encryption called public key cryptography. In this secrecy scheme, t…

For many years, we've been able to communicate via electronic messages really, really securely. Thank asymmetric key cryptography for this, a scheme for encoding messages that is nigh unbreakable. The widely-used and depended-upon secrecy scheme rest…

To anyone thinking about beefing up their computer security, a new "'see something, say, something' memo":http://info.publicintelligence.net/FBI-SuspiciousActivity/Internet_Cafe.pdf from the U.S. Department of Justice might be a little disconcerting…

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