Ever since writing has existed, people have wanted to send secret messages to one another--and others have wanted to intercept and read them. This is the second installment of a blog series taking you ...

This is the third installment in Reason's four-part documentary series titled "Cypherpunks Write Code." Watch the complete series here. In 1977, a team of cryptographers at MIT made an astonishing ...

Code-based cryptography employs error-correcting codes as the basis for secure public-key schemes, leveraging the intrinsic difficulty of decoding a random linear ...

NOVA scienceNOW's "Can Science Stop Crime" introduced you to Tadayoshi Kohno, a University of Washington computer scientist who's made it his mission to take over networked machines, identifying ...

Q: If I encrypt my .class files and use a custom classloader to load and decrypt them on the fly, will this prevent decompilation? A: The problem of preventing Java byte-code decompilation is almost ...

Introduction: A revolutionary cipher -- Cryptology before 1500: a bit of magic -- The black chambers: 1500-1776 -- Crypto goes to war: the American Revolution -- Crypto goes to war: the American Civil ...

ANNAPOLIS, Md.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The Accredited Standards Committee X9 Inc. (X9) today announced an initiative to develop a new standard, "X9.148 -- QR Code Protection Using Cryptographic Solutions," ...

With the development of science and technology, an important measure to ensure the security of information transmission is to adopt information encryption technology. Information encryption is the use ...