Image source: Getty Images. What is cryptography? A simple dictionary definition of cryptography, courtesy of Merriam-Webster, is "the enciphering and deciphering of messages in secret code or ...

Dig into the low-level details of how encryption works, and it's easy to be intimidated. ECC is an important technology in VPNs, for instance, but one site describes it as 'public-key cryptography ...

Cryptography's history. A more modern approach to cryptography is from Blaise de Vigenère, a Frenchman in the 16th century, and represents an early approach to encoding the message via an ...

Encryption is essential to keep private information, messages, and financial transactions private and secure in a digital world. It protects the confidentiality of digital data stored on computer ...

Quantum cryptography draws its strength from the weirdness of reality at small scales. The most popular cryptographic application yet for this strange behavior is quantum key distribution, aka QKD.

In the arms race between white and black hats, the infosec industry looks to quantum cryptography and quantum key distribution (QKD). That may be just part of the answer, however.

Cryptography is the art of keeping information secret and safe by transforming it into form that unintended recipients cannot understand. It makes secure data transmission over the internet possible.