Nathan Eddy works as an independent filmmaker and journalist based in Berlin, specializing in architecture, business technology and healthcare IT. He is a graduate of Northwestern University’s Medill ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. For thousands of years, if you wanted to send a secret message, there was basically one way to do it. You’d scramble the message using a ...

Cryptography is an obscure discipline. Unless you're in big tech, a university or a research organization, you're unlikely to meet its practitioners. Even then, you might have to search to find them.

Symmatrics, a new cybersecurity company founded to replace today’s vulnerable cryptographic infrastructure, today announced the publication of The Last Encryption, a groundbreaking book revealing a ...

Current public-key cryptography is expected to be broken by a large-scale quantum computer as soon as eight years from now. There is no question that quantum computing poses significant risks to the ...

The Diffie-Hellman algorithm was a stunning breakthrough in cryptography that showed cryptographic keys could be securely exchanged in plain sight. Here’s how it works. Whitfield Diffie and Martin ...

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FINDING 2.1: Stateful digital signatures based on hash functions are practical today and will remain secure even if large-scale quantum computers are practical or if new number theoretic attacks are ...

IBM adds NIST’s new public-key encryption and digital signatures algorithms to defend against attacks by future quantum computers. While the need for it may be years away, IBM has added additional ...