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 ...

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 ...

Abstract: The networks have moved worldwide and information has been considered in the digital form of bits and bytes. Critical information is stored, refined and sent in digital form on personal ...

Digital signatures may not be as hard to forge as previously thought. Scuttlebutt from the ponytail and Birkenstock set is that the algorithm most commonly used for creating a unique digital ...

Imagine a world where the most widely-used cryptographic methods turn out to be broken: quantum computers allow encrypted Internet data transactions to become readable by anyone who happened to be ...

Online privacy has started to sound like an oxymoron! Every e-mail (confidential or not) you send is sent as a plain text and if intercepted, it will just be a sitting duck with no protection ...

Abstract: With the development of Mobile Internet, the smart phones become more and more popular. So a lot of people choose to store personal information directly on the Smartphone. It usually leads ...

An online encryption method widely used to protect banking, email, e-commerce and other sensitive Internet transactions is not as secure as assumed, according to a report issued by a team of U.S and ...