Eerke Boiten is a senior lecturer in the School of Computing at the University of Kent, and Director of the University's interdisciplinary Centre for Cyber Security Research. He receives funding from ...

For more than 40 years, we have been building the modern internet on foundations that were never designed for the world we live in today. When the architects of the early internet created its ...

The concept of cryptography touches our lives many times per day, and that’s probably a conservative estimate. We have a pretty good idea of how it works, having dealt with public-key cryptography for ...

'The first thing you need to know about quantum cryptography is that it isn't cryptography. At least, not the quantum part,' writes Rob Slade, information security researcher, author and malware ...

Cryptography might be the most important thing that you use every day -- from e-commerce to messaging apps to retrieving your email to getting money out of an ATM to satellite TV -- without knowing.

Sending secret messages to your friends is fun, but today it’s so simple that you don’t even notice it anymore: practically any serious messaging system features encryption of some sort. To teach his ...

What do the Gallic Wars and online shopping have in common? The answer, believe it or not, is cryptography. Cryptography is the cement of the digital world, but it also has a long history that ...

ABERDEEN PROVING GROUND, Md. (April 12, 2013) -- Until recently, Soldiers learning about cryptography were trained on Cold War-era equipment. The Army is on a mission to change that training paradigm ...

In 1994, the computer scientist Peter Shor discovered that if quantum computers were ever invented, they would decimate much of the infrastructure used to protect information shared online. That ...