Asymmetric vs Symmetric Encryption: What’s the Difference? Your email has been sent Both asymmetric and symmetric encryption are being used by businesses to protect their information. But what are the ...

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When the IBM PC was new, I served as the president of the San Francisco PC User Group for three years. That’s how I met PCMag’s editorial team, who brought me on board in 1986. In the years since that ...

As the National Institute of Standards and Technology is slated to soon debut the first round of encryption algorithms it has deemed suited for the potential arrival of a viable quantum computer, ...

I remember back in the '90s there was a considerably controversy around encryption and encryption algorithms. I think there was a law in the US that forbid implementation of higher than 1024-bit ...

This post is somewhat related to my Wells Fargo thread in the lounge. It got me wondering exactly what depth of encryption is used on cell-streams. To quote a friend who works for VZW, "We use a 26 ...

Signal, an open-source platform that is similar to Meta Platforms, Inc.'s META WhatsApp, is defending its reputation as the "gold standard" in encrypted messaging after an internal Pentagon advisory ...

RSA encryption is a major foundation of digital security and is one of the most commonly used forms of encryption, and yet it operates on a brilliantly simple premise: it's easy to multiply two large ...

RSA is dead, long live RSA! At the end of December 2022, Chinese researchers published a paper claiming that they can crack RSA encryption using current-generation quantum computing. For decades, the ...

Kevin Rose, the founder of Digg Inc., threw in the towel on Tuesday night. By that point, Digg executives had spent hours in a fruitless battle to remove repeated posts to the community news Web site ...