In a nutshell: Researchers at China's Tsinghua University believe they have discovered a quantum-based algorithm capable of breaking today's most complex encryption standards. The team claims that the ...

Most people don’t think about it daily, but data encryption is vital to our lives. Secure encryption technology is used to protect the data on your mobile device, laptop, hard drive and the cloud, as ...

Encrypting your communications -- even using the strongest algorithm possible -- gives you no extra legal privacy rights, according to the good professor Orin Kerr. Kerr recently blogged his 2001 law ...

Encryption is a term that many of us have come across, but what does it mean? To put it simply, encryption is the encoding of information. Various online services use it to keep your data private and ...

Imagine if, tomorrow, someone invented a “digital skeleton key” that could unlock any keyless entry system. Overnight, millions of door locks, garages and practically every modern vehicle would become ...

Susan Landau has a research grant from Google. In the past she has received funding from NSF. She participates in a Berkman Center group that periodically publishes whitepapers on security and privacy ...

More and more personal data is being stored on mobile devices, and without encryption, this data can easily fall into the wrong hands If your mobile device contains any personal or private data, then ...