A formula used to turn ordinary data, or "plaintext," into a secret coded message known as "ciphertext." The ciphertext can reside in storage or travel over unsecure networks without its contents ...

Quantum computing is a catalyst for rethinking how organizations govern, secure and manage cryptographic systems.

Image encryption and associated security algorithms have become critical in protecting visual data as digital communication networks expand. Contemporary methods combine traditional cryptographic ...

Unlike quantum computing, which faces steep hardware challenges, AI research can be iterated, trained, and scaled on existing ...

The race against Q-Day has begun, and success will require not just technical innovation, but the wisdom to learn from each ...

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The US Department of Commerce's technical standards organization NIST has nominated the Ascon group of cryptographic algorithms for protecting small devices and information transmitted to and from IoT ...

The US National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has chosen a new algorithm for post-quantum encryption. The HQC algorithm is intended to serve as a backup for ML-KEM, the main algorithm ...

Algorithms for encrypting computer data come in two main varieties: symmetric and asymmetric. Each encryption type has inherent strengths and weaknesses. Symmetric algorithms convert plain-text data ...

Multivariate cryptography and finite field algorithms are two interlocking research areas that underpin many modern cryptographic systems and computational methods. Multivariate cryptography relies on ...