A formula used to turn ordinary data, or "plaintext," into a secret coded message known as "ciphertext." The ciphertext can reside in storage or travel over unsecure networks without its contents ...

The technology community has a definition of an encryption back door. The government has its own. A judge’s order Tuesday night compelling Apple to assist law enforcement officials in unlocking the ...

A wise man once said, “encryption is easy, key management is hard.” PGP recognized this and built a great key management platform to manage encryption keys for mobile devices, PCs, email, mainframes, ...

The decryption and re-encryption of confidential data at various router or switching junctions throughout the transmission path. For example, a transmission from Boston to Phoenix is encrypted in ...

This article appears in the Aug. 27, 2009, edition of ISO&Agent Weekly. As card-security breaches continue to hamper the payments industry, the parties involved in the transaction process are ...

Lucas Ropek covers cybersecurity and privacy for Gizmodo. You can follow his coverage here, and email story ideas and tips to [email protected]. Concern about the powers of quantum computers (which ...

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi said it’s time to have “a discussion” about the proliferation of encryption that locks out even law enforcement. But the California Democrat warned against any hasty ...

The second bill in the package, A.B. 964, clarifies that “‘encrypted’ means rendered unusable, unreadable, or indecipherable to an unauthorized person through a security technology or methodology ...

Data encryption is a hot-button topic with businesses throughout Michigan and the U.S. Pure Entropy Technologies is working with commercial clients and the federal government in this area. The company ...