The story of Kryptos and the cryptanalyst who spent decades trying to solve the CIA sculpture greatest mystery.

The U.S. Department of War (DoW) has announced plans to transition to post-quantum cryptography (PQC) to safeguard its systems against the risks posed by quantum computing. A new memorandum outlines ...

Cipher #1: Caesar (shift 4) Cipher #2: Caesar (shift 14) Cipher #3: Vigenere (key: BERIKUT) Cipher #4: Route Cipher (interval 4) Cipher #5: Transposition (Samuel Morland) ...

EU's ProtectEU mandates on-device scanning before encryption, creating a two-tier security system where states encrypt while citizens are surveilled. Digital feudalism codified. Sam Altman, CEO of ...

Signal announced the introduction of Sparse Post-Quantum Ratchet (SPQR), a new cryptographic component designed to withstand quantum computing threats. SPQR will serve as an advanced mechanism that ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Hard problems are usually not a welcome sight. But cryptographers love them. That’s because certain hard math problems underpin the ...

U.S. government information networks handling controlled unclassified and national security information are under continual cyber attack by sophisticated peer and near-peer adversaries. Evolving cyber ...

“Data we encrypt today is still valuable and vulnerable in the future.” Some truths are hard to hear. This is one: attackers are already stealing encrypted data and planning to decrypt it later, when ...

A new technical paper titled “FlashVault: Versatile In-NAND Self-Encryption with Zero Area Overhead” was published by researchers at DGIST, Georgia Tech, POSTECH, Samsung Electronics, Virginia Tech, ...

Quantum computing may one day outperform classical machines in solving certain complex problems, but when and how this “quantum advantage” emerges has remained unclear. Now, researchers from Kyoto ...

Hard problems are usually not a welcome sight. But cryptographers love them. That’s because certain hard math problems underpin the security of modern encryption. Any clever trick for solving them ...

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