Here's what algorithms do behind the scenes and why they're important. Okay, what's an algorithm? A computer algorithm is a set of instructions that tell computers how to handle and interpret data.

So, an algorithm is the process a computer uses to transform input data into output data. A simple concept, and yet every piece of technology that you touch involves many algorithms.

The Data Encryption Standard, or DES, was a mid-1970s brainchild of the National Bureau of Standards: the first modern, public, freely available encryption algorithm. For over two decades, DES was ...

What is an algorithm? It can feel like a big, abstract, concept. So here’s presenter Jon Stroud with a step-by-step guide.

In his book The Master Algorithm, Pedro Domingos offers a masterfully simple definition: “An algorithm is,” Domingos writes, “a sequence of instructions telling a computer what to do.” ...

“John the Ripper” Open Source Password Cracker Offers Increased Speed Through 17 Percent Improvement in Gate Count for Data Encryption Standard (DES) Algorithm ...