A federal agency is soliciting public comments on encryption methods that can stand up to quantum computing. Quantum computing is often seen as the next giant leap forward in technology. It will ...

A unique cipher that uses playing cards and dice to turn languages into glyphs produces text eerily similar to the glyphs in ...

The Voynich manuscript has long been shorthand for the unsolved and the unknowable, a late medieval codex filled with looping ...

(Nanowerk News) Metasurfaces, composed of nanoresonator arrays with tailored structure and subwavelength feature size, show the potential of manipulating various degrees of freedom for manipulating ...

The advent of better quantum computers is something to be excited about. Research on developing more practical quantum computers abound, including those that can make it work as a consumer product—and ...

The FBI is getting a bit riled over Apple Inc. and Google Inc.’s decision to use tougher encryption methods in its mobile devices, because it’s making it almost impossible for spooks to snoop on ...

Encryption is the process of converting readable data, known as plaintext, into a jumbled string of data called ciphertext. Encryption algorithms use mathematical operations to scrabble data, making ...