The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. In our increasingly digital lives, security depends on cryptography. Send a private message or pay a bill online, and you’re relying on ...

Anthropic said its Mythos model—which currently remains available only to a select group of trusted users—was able to advance attacks against two cryptosystems. The first system is HAWK, a digital ...

Two researchers have improved a well-known technique for lattice basis reduction, opening up new avenues for practical experiments in cryptography and mathematics. In our increasingly digital lives, ...

Mathematicians often toil in obscurity, and that's likely because few people, apart from fellow mathematicians who share the same sub-specialty, understand what they do. Even when algorithms have ...

The Diffie-Hellman algorithm was a stunning breakthrough in cryptography that showed cryptographic keys could be securely exchanged in plain sight. Here’s how it works. Whitfield Diffie and Martin ...

We know the end of the line is in sight for classical cryptography. All the security encryption that protects our bank accounts, websites, and credit cards today will eventually be broken. That's not ...

Data protection provider Commvault Systems Inc. today announced new post-quantum cryptography capabilities designed to help customers protect data from emerging quantum security threats. The new PQC ...

Apple Inc. plans to update iMessage with a new encryption component, dubbed PQ3, that can block cyberattacks launched by quantum computers. Members of the company’s cybersecurity research team ...

The US National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) announced on 7 April 2023, that the Ascon algorithm developed at Graz University of Technology (TU Graz) has been selected as the standard ...

Uncertainty surrounds a cracked post-quantum cryptography algorithm being considered by the National Institute of Standards and Technology, now that researchers have potentially discovered a second ...

There’s little doubt that some of the most important pillars of modern cryptography will tumble spectacularly once quantum computing, now in its infancy, matures sufficiently. Some experts say that ...

Cryptocurrency generally uses two different cryptographic methods—one dedicated to generating its public-private key pairs ...