Digital security currently relies on difficult equations to protect data. For example, when you use a credit card online, the ...

The security and privacy of global commerce and communication depend on forms of encryption that would take classical ...

In a new approach to security that unites technology and art, EPFL researchers have combined silver nanostructures with polarized light to yield a range of brilliant colors, which can be used to ...

The big picture: Encryption is a feature that is typically only used on higher performing devices because of the delays it can cause. Google's new Adiantum adaptation of existing encryption methods ...

A group of Chinese researchers has claimed to be able to break a widely used encryption scheme with a quantum computer that already exists, creating a possible boon for surveillance and a crisis for ...

The Web's leading standards group proposed two recommendations for encrypting XML data and documents, a key development in the organization's push to standardize technologies crucial to Web services.

Explore 25 famously unsolved ciphers and codes that have baffled experts for centuries. From ancient scripts to modern ...