MUNICH, Germany — Radio-controlled entry systems are ubiquitous in today's cars, but security remains an issue. Fraunhofer Scientists now for the first time have implemented an asymmetric encryption ...

February 16, 2010 – Ottawa, Canada: Security IP provider Elliptic today announced that it has released a comprehensive solution to perhaps the most difficult challenge today facing designers in ...

Encryption, the transformation of data into a form that prevents anyone unauthorized from understanding that data, is a fundamental technology that enables online commerce, secure communication, and ...

Encryption is a key technology for federal agencies. Although encryption is the primary goal, many encryption systems depend on a combination of tools to accomplish other tasks. Public-key ...

A handful of arcane mathematicians way back in the 18th and 19th centuries aspired to invent a useless mathematical theory that would shine for its beauty alone, unstained by practical applications.

A very popular encryption method that uses two keys: a public key and a private key. When a message is sent to a person who is the only one entitled to view it, the sender uses the recipient's public ...

What are cryptographic keys, and why should they be kept safe? A cryptographic key is a string of data that is used to encrypt data (to the data secret), decrypt data (to perform the reverse operation ...

Great article. A few technicalities: 1. Amusingly, the "hard" mathematical problems that crypto is based on are all only speculated to be hard. RSA depends on the RSA assumption, which basically ...