Computation pervades today’s world. From banking, to romance, to shopping, and even warfare, computers form one of the pillars of human civilization. However, there has been a lot of worry about ...

Secure communication is essential in modern embedded systems, particularly in distributed and IoT applications. This article presents a practical implementation of encrypted message exchange between ...

The dreaded Q-day could arrive sooner than expected, and when it does, experts say we need to be ready. Reading time 8 minutes In 1994, American mathematician Peter Shor developed a quantum algorithm ...

Businesses must prepare now for post-quantum cryptography, as quantum computing could render today’s encryption obsolete and expose sensitive data to future cyber threats. Within the next decade, ...

Secure Shell (SSH) is the backbone of secure remote access—but with so many key algorithms to choose from, which one should you use? Let’s walk through the history, the trade‑offs, and the modern ...

In this post, we describe FrodoKEM, a key encapsulation protocol that offers a simple design and provides strong security guarantees even in a future with powerful quantum computers. For decades, ...

Microsoft is updating Windows 11 with a set of new encryption algorithms that can withstand future attacks from quantum computers in a move aimed at jump-starting what’s likely to be the most ...

One day soon, at a research lab near Santa Barbara or Seattle or a secret facility in the Chinese mountains, it will begin: the sudden unlocking of the world’s secrets. Your secrets. Cybersecurity ...

A basic feature of number theory, prime numbers are also a fundamental building block of computer science, from hashtables to cryptography. Everyone knows that a prime number is one that cannot be ...