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

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.

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

Everyone who has used the Internet has used encryption. The technology—boiled down, it’s just math—is everywhere. It plays a central role in how the Web is secured. Encryption codes messages ...

Encryption: Achy, Breaky Code. by Simson Garfinkel. Encryption: Achy, Breaky Code. Feature. Jul 1, 2003 8 mins. Data and Information Security Encryption. What every CSO needs to know about encryption ...

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.

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.

Did you know that the vast majority of calls carried out on the 3.5 billion GSM connections in the world today are protected by a 21-year old 64-bit encryption algorithm? You should now, given ...