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After the Sept 11th attack, there was a strong outcry to further legislation on cryptography and encryption. In fact, Zimmerman, the developer of PGP, a well-known encryption tool for e-mail, came ...

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Banks are embracing cryptographic identity systems to tackle advanced fraud, comply with evolving regulations, and safeguard customer privacy. EU measures such as eIDAS 2.0 and the Digital Identity ...

Sending secret messages to your friends is fun, but today it’s so simple that you don’t even notice it anymore: practically any serious messaging system features encryption of some sort. To teach his ...

It’ll still be a while before quantum computers become powerful enough to do anything useful, but it’s increasingly likely that we will see full-scale, error-corrected quantum computers become ...

The famous cryptographers Leonard Adleman, Ronald Rivest, and Adi Shamir – the developers of the RSA encryption code – received the Association for Computing Machinery’s 2002 Turing Award “for their ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. In our increasingly digital lives, security depends on cryptography. Send a private message or pay a bill online, and you’re relying on ...

For much of the past decade, post-quantum cryptography (PQC) lived primarily in academic journals and standards committees. That changed in August 2024, when the National Institute of Standards and ...

Most business leaders don’t think about cryptography—and that has always been the point. For decades, encryption quietly protected data in the background, rarely demanding attention once systems were ...

In 1994, the computer scientist Peter Shor discovered that if quantum computers were ever invented, they would decimate much of the infrastructure used to protect information shared online. That ...