As international authorities warn the public against investing in Vladimir Okhotnikov’s latest crypto scheme, specialized ...

If you can’t find your BitLocker recovery key, this post will help you. BitLocker is a volume encryption feature in Windows that lets you encrypt an entire volume to protect your data. It provides a ...

Senate Bill 1622 allows county government authority to recognize recreational customary use of beaches It's a way to get around costly legal battles over private versus public beach access ...

For the last five years, the FIDO Alliance -- led by Apple, Microsoft, and Google (with other companies in tow) -- has been blazing a trail toward a future where passwords are no longer necessary in ...

Nathan Eddy works as an independent filmmaker and journalist based in Berlin, specializing in architecture, business technology and healthcare IT. He is a graduate of Northwestern University’s Medill ...

In the context of cryptography, a public key is an alphanumeric string that serves as an essential component of asymmetric encryption algorithms. It is typically derived from a private key, which must ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. For thousands of years, if you wanted to send a secret message, there was basically one way to do it. You’d scramble the message using a ...

A report that Chinese researchers have employed a D-Wave quantum computer to breach encryption algorithms used to secure bank accounts, top-secret military data and crypto wallets is, at first glance, ...

Rated of moderate severity, the flaw affects YubiKey 5 series and Security Key Series with firmware earlier than version 5.7, and YubiHSM 2 versions prior to 2.4.0. And the devices are impossible to ...

Cryptography deals with encoding information in a special way such that encoded messages can only be decoded and read by someone with special knowledge. This done to ensure secure communications; you ...