Encryption underpins the security of bank cards, state secrets and online privacy. By using large sets of numbers, the process of encoding information means that only the person, or computer, with the ...

In 2018, Aayush Jain, a graduate student at the University of California, Los Angeles, traveled to Japan to give a talk about a powerful cryptographic tool he and his colleagues were developing. As he ...

Google researchers have engineered an extremely rare and invisible collision, but they didn't need the Large Hadron Collider to do it. That's because their collision isn't atomic, it's cryptographic: ...

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 ...

Post-quantum cryptography will be a major challenge for the next decade at least, according to Bart Preneel, professor of cryptography at KU Leuven University in Belgium. This is one of the main ...

It's not just terrorists, paedophiles and hackers who use encryption online - most of us use it every day. Whenever you see a padlock symbol in your browser's web address bar, your communications with ...

A quantum computer system which uses atoms and lasers could one day become so powerful that it renders encryption technology useless. Typical encryption systems - used to secure computer ...

The US National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has chosen the first group of encryption tools designed to withstand the attack of a future quantum computer, which could potentially crack ...

Hacking, security and encryption - the history of the war between governments and geeks to control computer cryptography. Show more BBC Security Correspondent Gordon Corera explores the history of the ...

Introduction: A revolutionary cipher -- Cryptology before 1500: a bit of magic -- The black chambers: 1500-1776 -- Crypto goes to war: the American Revolution -- Crypto goes to war: the American Civil ...