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 ...

A developer building an application will encounter many situations in which he or she will want to protect the integrity and/or contents of a serialized object as it is transferred over or stored on ...

Karsten Nohl, the founder of Berlin's Security Research Labs, has announced an exploit for SIM cards using the outdated 56-bit DES algorithm for its signature verification. The security researcher ...

A proprietary algorithm developed by RSA Data Security, Inc., RC2 is an alternative to DES. The algorithm expands a single message by up to 8 bytes. RC2 is a block cipher that encrypts data in blocks ...

U.S. Air Force Airmen 1st Class Austin Marino and Nicholas Owens, 81st Communications Squadron cyber defense operators, program new laptops for base personnel at Keesler Air Force Base, Mississippi, ...

Information is wealth, and an important way to protect it is encryption. End-to-end (E2E) encryption in particular protects information in a way that has transformed human rights organisations’, ...