Digital security depends on the difficulty of factoring large numbers. A new proof shows why one method for breaking digital encryption won’t work. My recent story for Quanta explained a newly proved ...

There's just too much information out there, and sometimes what you're looking for is just sitting right in front of you and you don't even notice. Timo Hirvonen is an analyst at F-Secure, and every ...

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - As a key part of a campaign to embed encryption software that it could crack into widely used computer products, the U.S. National Security Agency arranged a secret $10 ...