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Hackers are waiting for the moment quantum computing breaks cryptography and enables the mass decryption of years of stolen information. In preparation, they are harvesting even more encrypted data ...

TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - The Brain Cipher group, which hacked the Indonesian Temporary National Data Center (PDNS) with LockBit 3.0 type ransomware announced on Tuesday that it would open the encrypted ...

Today we’re going to talk about how to keep information secret, and this isn’t a new goal. We’re going to walk you through some common encryption techniques such as the Advanced Encryption Standard ...

The arena of creating secure environments in the hardware and software industries is somewhat shrouded in mystery and misunderstanding. Certainly, some types of ciphers are relatively straightforward ...

TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - The Director General of Informatics Application (Aptika) at the Ministry of Communication and Informatics (Kominfo Ministry), Semuel Abrijani Pangerapan, revealed that the ...

A few months ago, GeekDad's Challenge of the Week was a lovely cipher about famous novels beginnings. I enjoyed solving it and that reminded me of a time where I was teaching younger students (12 to ...

In Part 1 of my series on Transport Layer Security (TLS) decryption, I went over a few basics of encryption, discussed TLS 1.2, and concluded by outlining the improvements TLS 1.3 provided. In this ...

During World War II, the Allied powers intercepted huge volumes of radio communications being used by the Axis powers to coordinate military activity. Many intercepted messages had been encrypted ...