As the website “How To Geek” points out, “computers and the Internet have allowed us to open ourselves up and become more vulnerable than ever before…, and encryption is one of the only methods of ...

Data breaches are now the new norm and have reached epidemic proportions. Whether you work for a government agency, financial institution, health care company or private corporation, no organization ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Dave Altavilla is a Tech Analyst covering chips, compute and AI. In the Tech sector there are few areas of the market that are as ...

Before we move into the meat of this article, let’s define a couple terms related to cryptography. The syllable crypt may make you think of tombs, but it comes from a Greek word that means “hidden” or ...

To encrypt or not to encrypt, that is the question. Well, you should of course be encrypting data in motion particularly where it’s to be carried over a third party network such as the internet or the ...

The Internet of Things (IoT), including embedded industrial sensors, smart lighting, and monitoring systems, can be invaluable for the enterprise. These devices tend to have minimal power demands, can ...

Encrypted communications are increasingly thwarting intelligence agencies that are working to detect terrorist activity. And a comment Wednesday from the FBI's director emphasizes how serious the ...

This chapter excerpted from Hardware Implementation of Finite-Field Arithmetic, gives an example of finite-field application—namely, the implementation of the scalar product (point multiplication) ...

When quantum computers become commonplace, current cryptographic systems will become obsolete. Scientists are racing to get ahead of the problem and keep our data secure.