Once this secure connection is established, your credit card details are encrypted, turning them into a jumble of unreadable ...

Computer scientist Peter Gutmann tells The Reg why it's 'bollocks' The US National Institute for Standards and Technology ...

But in fact, communicating in codes and ciphers have been around since long before the digital era. And so have scripts and ...

Cracking The Data Encryption Code. Two things jump to mind when it comes to encryption: It's a must-have for secure military installations, and it's a huge headache to implement among everyone else.

NEW YORK -- Encryption to most people either just happens, or it doesn't. A select few have the skills to fiddle with keys, code, and command prompts needed to secure emails and documents, but the ...

Though the NSA has apparently cracked widely used encryption algorithms, security experts maintain that, properly implemented, encryption is still the best way to secure data.

The NSA spent $255 million this year on the decryption program — code named Bullrun — which aims to "covertly influence" software designs and "insert vulnerabilities into commercial encryption ...

Thirty-Year-Old Encryption Formula Can Resist Quantum-Computing Attacks That Defeat All Common Codes ... an obscure encryption code created in 1978 is resistant to all known methods of quantum attack.

The New York Times' John Markoff writes that a team of American and European researchers have discovered a crack in the RSA program, one of the most commonly used encryption algorithms in the world.