The world’s six largest computer drive makers Tuesday published the final specifications (download PDF) for a single, full-disk encryption standard that can be used across all hard disk drives ...

Quantum Computers Could Help Hackers Defeat Encryption. Here’s How to Protect Your Data New tools are available in the fight against the formidable power of quantum computers.

However, Chinese researchers claim to have succeeded in breaking a 50-bit RSA, a simplified version of this encryption, by exploiting qubits in a D-Wave quantum computer.

New documents leaked by Edward Snowden reveal two NSA programs that seek to build a "useful quantum computer" that can break all known forms of classical encryption. Such a quantum computer would ...

One of the most well-established and disruptive uses for a future quantum computer is the ability to crack encryption. A new algorithm could significantly lower the barrier to achieving this. Despite ...

Apple is upgrading iMessage's security to post-quantum cryptography in an effort to avoid future "harvest now, decrypt later" attacks.

End-to-end encryption, or E2EE, is a method of protecting data during transfer that's often used with SMS messages. Here's how it works.

The Commerce Department is proposing the work of two Belgian cryptographers for the nation's new Advanced Encryption Standard, which is to be used in federal computer systems and in the private ...