Mathematicians often toil in obscurity, and that's likely because few people, apart from fellow mathematicians who share the same sub-specialty, understand what they do. Even when algorithms have ...

Classical public-key cryptography derives its security from integer factorisation. Diagram by Venus Kolhi. Quantum computers bring exponential computing power, ultrafast calculations, advanced ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. In our increasingly digital lives, security depends on cryptography. Send a private message or pay a bill online, and you’re relying on ...

In July, the National Institute of Standards and Technologies selected four cryptography algorithms as national standards for public key security in order to prepare for an era of quantum computers, ...

U.S. President Donald Trump holds up an executive order after signing it in the Oval Office of the White House on June 22, ...

Two brothers in Singapore have built a data-encryption company on pure mathematics, betting that a problem no algorithm can ...

Quantum computing technology is developing rapidly, promising to solve many of society’s most intractable problems. However, as researchers race to build quantum computers that would operate in ...

SecureRF, a provider of security solutions for the Internet of Things, has been selected to present their data protection software, Algebraic Eraser, at the National Institute of Standards and ...

Although quantum computers aren’t yet overcoming encryption at scale, that doesn’t mean the IoT sector can afford to wait.